H. Peter Steeves brings Mourning to Light

Posted by DCA Theater on February 11, 2010 in January-June 2010 Season, The Mourning Show

Danielle Meijer as “Death”. Photo by John W. Sisson, Jr.

On Tuesday, February 9, Dr. H. Peter Steeves presented the “The Mourning Show” in the Claudia Cassidy Theater. Despite that harsh winter conditions, over 150 people turned out to explore the relationship between art and mourning with Prof. Steeves.

“The Mourning Show”  incorporated a multi-media slide presentation/lecture with live music, dance and theater to focus on the relationships among language, representation, beauty, memory, and grief. Mourning’s work is confronting the death of the Other, and as such it places us in relation to our mortal world and our finite community. Prof. Steeves investigated what this means from a philosophic, scientific, and artistic standpoint, moving from the work of Edward Hopper to Francis Bacon, from William Shakespeare to Donald Hall, from Aristotle to Jacques Derrida—from painting to poetry to physics to philosophy and beyond.

Click here to view photos by John W. Sisson, Jr.