No Sleep till Dawn of Day The music I chose for this choreography, is a lullaby from the Solomon Islands. The name of this song is “Nyuba nunuli”. The diverse musical culture of these Islands, close to New Guinea, are characterized by the great importance given to polyphony. Savo is a small volcanic island of four miles in diameter. Unlike the other islands, the traditional music of Savo is purely vocal. In this lullaby, a vocalist asks the baby not to cry or be afraid, even though she has neither arms to carry anything, nor legs to stroll with. It is the song of the 'snake-woman', a figure of oral literature, also known else- where in that part of the world. The islands of the Southern Pacific are some of the most remote places on our planet. They hold a key to the under- standing of our ancestry - places where man is still in close touch with his natural surroundings and totally dependent on them - places far enough from us to preserve some of the essential aspects of human existence - but unfortunately also far enough to be abused by experiments with nuclear weapons. This dichotomy - this schizophrenic compulsion to preserve and to destroy - seems to be part of the human nature. Jiří Kylián