Ragnar Kjartansson

No Tomorrow is the product of a collaboration between Ragnar Kjartansson, choreographer Bjarnadóttir and composer Dessner. Eight dancers strum acoustic guitars as they circle around, as if forming some ethereal, trans-lucent carousel of meticulously constructed choreographies. Any boundary between space and time seems to fade away as the music becomes the dance, and the dance, the music. The work incorporates a song based on excerpts from the 18th-century novella No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon and fragments from the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. As Bryce Dessner puts it: “It’s Stockhausen meeting the Grand Ole Opry”.