About
A Big Enough Grief is a response to book designer Lesley Mitchell’s abstraction of Astor Piazzolla’s song, Balada para un Loco, in her book of the same title. Mitchell’s book caused jumatatu to reflect on his experiences with grief and the situations that create it. Piazzolla’s lyrics illustrate a man’s obsessive love for a woman who is out of his reach. A Big Enough Grief examines the longing for those that are no longer within our reach.
Production History
2011 – Presented in Movement Research at Judson Church. New York, NY
2011 – Presented by Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and Philadelphia Center for the Book. Community Education Center. Philadelphia, PA.
Creation Budget
Project Credits
produced by idiosynCrazy productions
directed by Jumatatu Poe
garment Design by Katie Coble
music by Margel Overton
movement, text, vocal design, and performance by Jungwoong Kim, Jumatatu Poe, and William Robinson
Funding Credits
originally commissioned by Philadelphia Center for the Book and Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts; also supported through a Philadelphia Live Arts (now FringeArts) Brewery Fellowship
