Membra Jesu Nostri

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Membra Jesu Nostri, Dietrich Buxtehude.
The Musicall Compass, director: Crispin Lewis
Lo Commotion, choregraphed by Jo Meredith

Buxtehude’s visionary baroque masterpiece ‘Membra Jesu Nostri’ is performed in a new collaboration between one of Britain’s most distinctive period intrument ensembles, The Musicall Compass, and contemporary dance company Lo commotion. Conceived by Crispin Lewis and Jo Meredith, the piece is performed in-the-round by dancers, singers and an ensemble of period instruments, in the glorious baroque setting of Christ Church, Spitalfields.
Following Buxtehude’s celebrated Passion meditation in seven parts – to the feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart and face – Jo Meredith’s choreography explores the presence and mystical symbolism of the human body.