Steamy romantic fiction?

We read in The Daily Bruin about an upcoming dance piece inspired by the Brontës:

Hothouse 2007, the world arts and cultures residency program for choreographers and performance artists from the L.A. community, begins today at UCLA’s Glorya Kaufman Hall. The program runs for three weeks of intense artistic creation. (...)
“I would have people come in and say to them, ‘Tell me this isn’t completely stupid.’ I didn’t want my work to be this weird thing made individually in my workspace – I wanted to see what other people thought of it,” said Rosanna Gamson, founder of the dance theater company Rosanna Gamson/World Wide and part of last year’s Hothouse.
The program provided an important testing ground for the creation of her dance theater piece “Ravish.” The project examines the creative environment that impelled the Brontë sisters to write steamy romantic fiction like “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights,” a fitting subject for the Hothouse program.
On the last day of the program, Gamson and the other participants shared what they had completed in front of everyone. Gamson gained important feedback when she showed them the beginnings of “Ravish.”
“You can tell how much an audience is listening just by how they look or how the room feels,” she said. “They raised questions about what I was doing.”

We beg to differ with the concept of 'steamy romantic fiction', though.

More information can be found at the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures:

Gamson's next project, RAVISH will preview at REDCAT August 30th as part of "Performance West" during the Western Arts Alliance Conference. (...)
Project Description: Ravish is an evening-length dance theater piece for five performers with interactive media by Flavia Sparacino and video by Barnaby Levy. The piece takes as its inspiration the creative hothouse in which the Brontë sisters wrote intensely Romantic fictions (Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, etc.) without the benefit of real-life experience.

And now for some other form of art. Do you recall July was The Tenant of Wildfell Hall's month at Knit the Classics? Though we don't have a winner yet, members of the group are already uploading pictures of their finished projects. See them here.

Wuthering Heights is featured in a couple of blogs today. The two men in Cathy's life are carefully compared and examined at length on Literary Temptation. And Opinared briefly reviews it in Spanish.

Summer in Cambridge stopped in Haworth on their way to Scotland and posts briefly on the Parsonage. A picture of the relatively new Literary Landscape on the moors can be seen.

Categories: Dance, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights