nine ladies dancing

nine ladies dancing was commissioned by the Corvus Consort and is a setting of a single line from the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ carol. While searching for inspiration I googled ‘nine ladies dancing’ and the results showed random bits of information, some relating to the line’s origin in Christian symbolism and pagan folklore, others from cooking blogs, stock photo galleries and craft retail stores. Even though none of the information related to each other, it all somehow related back to those three words, all the disparate fragments and chaos drawing from the same source.

nine ladies dancing was premiered in January 2021 and recorded at St James’s Church Sussex Gardens, conducted by Freddie Crowley.