After a failed attempt to negotiate a license for Insides, originally commissioned for Gerleen Balstra's "Hanging out to Dry". Dalton asked me to make a sibling to that piece of music I wrote half a decade ago with the monetary budget of two days work.
When I came in the work was practically finished, it just needed a piece of music. The dance consisted of repetitive movements in a singular formation so I felt like the music needed to have some deviations that always pulled back to the steady triplet core that it has.
The original Insides was an electronic and minimalistic interpretation on The Dance of the Knights by Prokofiev. Which is something that I feel like I need to mention since the interpolation is so obvious in the metrum.
Original title:
Fear of the Death
Choreography:
Dalton Jansen
Composer:
Tom van Wee