Then it seemed beautiful

The inaugural Trident Live Art Series performance, shown during the Stillness phase of the ambitious Winter Meditations exhibition series, featured choreography by Sarah Slifer Swift performed by her and three other dancers to Morton Feldman’s vocal composition Three Voices, a piece written for singer Joan La Barbara featuring the opening two lines from Frank O’Hara’s poem to the composer “Wind”: “Who’d have thought / that snow falls.” La Barbara writes, “one is suddenly propelled into the storm from the infinite stillness of intricate chords.”