Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle with support from Solaris
About This Event
Eleanor Alberga's String Quartet Cycle, presented at National Sawdust, is paired with support from Solaris. Solaris works between dance and live performance, shaping movement around amplified sound and drawing on progressive and space‑rock textures; their approach favors structure and physical clarity over spectacle, offering a movement‑based counterpoint to Alberga's quartet writing.
About The String Quartet Cycle(chamber)
The String Quartet Cycle is a dance work presented live at National Sawdust, drawing on the rigors and intimacies of chamber music as a structural frame. Featured performers include Eleanor Alberga, placing a contemporary compositional voice in direct conversation with bodies in motion. In New York City, where the string quartet is often treated as concert repertoire, this setting shifts it into a shared, physical space and tests how listening changes when movement carries the argument. The piece’s restraint becomes its point, asking for attention rather than spectacle.
About the Artist
Solaris
Solaris is a group working between dance and live performance, often shaping movement around amplified sound. In New York City, they have appeared in programs at National Sawdust, including support for Eleanor Alberga’s String Quartet Cycle.