Dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy memorized Simon Rattle’s gestures as the latter was conducting The Rite of Spring in Berlin. He reproduces those movements here for the audience. This illusionist’s act invites spectators to share an inner experience of the mobility of sound and the musicality of gestures. Can musical performances also be dances, in which the visual component naturally conditions what you hear and feel?
Spectacle Musique/Danse
Le Sacre du printemps
The Rite of Spring
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Designed and performed by Xavier Le Roy
Sound design: Peter Boehm
Music recorded by the Berlin Philharmonic
conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
With the collaboration of Berno Odo Polzer, Bojana Cvejiç
Produced by Le Kwatt and in situ productions
Co-produced by the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (where Xavier Le Roy is in residence for the 2007-
2008 season), Les Subsistances’ residency program/Lyon; Tanz im August – Internationales Tanzfest 2007/Berlin; PACT
Zollverein Choreographisches Zentrum NRW/Essen
Supported by NPN (national performance network) thanks to funding provided by the
Fondation fédérale allemande pour la culture as part of the Tanzplan Deutschland program
Co-presented by Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne à Paris
October 19 and 20
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