false 324403 1 <p>In March 2002, the Regina-based dance company New Dance Horizons performed Robert Bringhurst's <i>Ursa Major: A Polyphonic Masque for Speakers & Dancers</i>, a work that had been commissioned as part of an evening of modern performance and dance entitled <i>Invisible Ceremonies</i>. In <i>Ursa Major</i>, Bringhurst explores a polyphonic technique that allows multiple speakers &#8211; and multiple languages and traditions &#8211; to collaborate in the story's telling. The subject of the masque is Ursa Major, the great bear constellation, one of the most universal themes in world mythology. In setting the Cree tradition alongside the mythologies of ancient Greece and Rome, Bringhurst demonstrates the richness of metaphor that North Americans have inherited. This publication is an attempt to express the masque's performance in typographic form.</p> 315102 6 2003 Ursa Major: A Polyphonic Masque For Speakers & Dancers total:2|4:1|3:1| 2 7 3 0 324403 1894031660 9781894031660 2 0 3.50 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324403.Ursa_Major_A_Polyphonic_Masque_For_Speakers_Dancers 0 0 false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 07:24:55 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 07:24:59 -0700 2009 324403 1894031660 9781894031660 2 0 3.50 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324403.Ursa_Major_A_Polyphonic_Masque_For_Speakers_Dancers 4 0 false Tue Mar 31 19:58:33 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 19:58:33 -0700 2009 324403 1894031660 9781894031660 2 0 3.50 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324403.Ursa_Major_A_Polyphonic_Masque_For_Speakers_Dancers 3 0 false Fri Oct 31 06:28:11 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 06:28:19 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=324403