DANCE and DANCE OPERAS

Peter Wing Healey

had a long career as a dancer in New York City and later in Los Angeles.

He started out making a hybrid form of dance and opera.  To see some images of his dancing years click here.  To see some images and video of his Dance Operas follow the images below.

To the right: A photo of

Mr. Wing Healey taken by Annie Leibovitz in 1990 at the White Oak Project in Jacksonville , Florida.

JANE HEIR

written, directed and choreographed by Peter Wing Healey

music arranged by

Richard Gordon-Borg

Jane Eyre’s husband, Mr. Rochester, has died and her old friend St. John Rivers comes to take her away to the tropics.  In her absence her estate is taken over by Livia and Chester Servermoor, ruthless Corporate Owners of Global Fad.  Can Jane, now a prisoner in her own gothic mansion ever regain her power?

THE MUMMY

1986

was a Dance/Opera created from the the Boris Karloff film 1932 “The Mummy”.  The text was by Peter Wing Healey and the music was arranged from various sources with the help of Janet Norquist.

The first part was a complete performance of a Dance/Opera called “The Precious Flower” which had been done first at The Riverside Church Dance Festival and a few months later at Middle Collegiate Church.

The show ran for 4 weeks to audiences of various sizes and included the entire “Bolero” of Ravel done as a Egytian Funeral.

The show was a co-production with The Divine Theater Company which was in residence at The Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village of New York

THE NORMA

The Norma of the Mesopotamian Opera is a work written by Peter Wing Healey with music by Linda Dowdell.  

Presented at R.A.P.P. Arts Theater in New York City in 1991 and again at the Greenwich House Theater in 1992.

Norma, a Priestess of the Goddess living in the redwood forests of California faces off against her former husband, King Paul, king of the industrial Grid .  They fight over their daughter Carrie.  King Paul wants to take her to Mars to found a colony as the Earth is about to be utterly destroyed.

For photos and a video and more information click on the image to the right.

SUNSET SALOME

at H.E.R.E. in Soho, April 1996

written and directed by Peter Wing Healey

music by Max Kinberg

costumes by Willa Kim

lighting by Chenault Spence

Norma Desmond, now in a hospital for the criminally insane, is asked to run a theater program.  Of course, she wants to direct “Salome”  - her version.