THE
ISOLATION DANCES
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FOREST CREATURES
Music: Yma Sumac sings "Queen of the Night: Mambo!" (After Mozart's Die Zauberflöte)
Music: Yma Sumac sings "Clair de Lune"
By Claude Debussy
Music: Yma Sumac: Live in Moscow, 1960; "Chuncho (forest creatures)"
Music: Yma Sumac
"Moscow Nights"
Music: Giacomo Puccini; "Coro a Bocca Chiusa (humming chorus)," Madama Butterfly, sung by the Hungarian State Opera
Music: Yma Sumac
"Birds"
Music: Yma Sumac, "Birds"
Additional Dances
Music: "Eros"
by Mary Hampton.
Music: "Gold Hat"
by Mary Hampton
Music: "Tsintskaro"
by Hamlet Gonashvili
Music: "Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott," St. Matthew Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach, sung by Fadia el Hage with Ensemble Sarband
Flower Maiden's costume, Wagner's "Parsifal," San Francisco Opera, 1988
Music: "Tomb of the Time King" and "Whisper 1:
Lost in the Sand"
by Paul Mercer