Composed: 2019
Premiered: 2019, California
Duration: 25 minutes

Dance is dedicated with much love to my father, Leslie Clyne.

Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.
— Rumi

The work is in five movements according to the five lines of the poem.

I. when you're broken open
II. if you've torn the bandage off
III. in the middle of the fighting
IV. in your blood
V. when you're perfectly free

Program note by Anna Clyne