A dramatic journey between ancient rituals and contemporary sound and movement, between sustained hypnosis and orchestral subtlety, between body and sound.
Conductor: Roy Oppenheim | Composer: Ariel Blumenthal
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913) is considered a work that shook the history of music – both in its choice of ritualistic and wild theme, and in its unprecedented compositional language.
Choreographer Shahar Benyamini is creating a new dance piece inspired by it in close collaboration with the Revolution Orchestra and composer Ariel Blumenthal. Blumenthal was invited to compose his own original response to the work – not a reworking, but an entirely new piece that corresponds with Stravinsky, and is built through a contemporary orchestration that includes electric guitar, synthesizer, and unique percussion.
The result: a polyrhythmic, physical, innovative and hypnotic ritual.
Claude Debussy’s Afternoon of a Faun (1894) is considered a milestone in Western music—a moment when a work ceases to tell a story in the dramatic terms of Romanticism, and begins to emerge as a state of consciousness constructed of color, movement, resonance, and memory. Instead of a clear narrative structure, Debussy offers a musical image that moves like breath—rich in tone, suggestive, and open to personal interpretation.
The work inspired Nijinsky’s groundbreaking choreography in Russian ballet, and became a symbol of an aesthetic revolution in the world of dance as well.
Here too, composer Ariel Blumenthal was invited to correspond with the original work and bring a new interpretation, in a live performance by the Revolution Orchestra, and with a new choreographic layer by Benyamini that continues to walk the intriguing border between movement and dream.
To conclude, the piece Bolero by Maurice Ravel (1928) will be performed.
The work was originally written as a complete ballet, and its structure is almost outrageously simple: one rhythm and one melody that repeat themselves over and over again, with constant changes of orchestral colors, which gradually increase in intensity to the point of a feeling of ecstasy.
This is one of the most famous works in the world of dance, thanks to its hypnotic structure, gradual accumulation of intensity, and the almost obsessive feeling it evokes, which grows stronger with each passing moment.
BOLERO X, created by Shahar Binyamini for 50 dancers and became an international sensation, was performed on leading stages around the world – Germany, Canada, France, China and more.
Now, for the first time in Israel, the work will be performed accompanied by a live orchestra, in a version that brings the depth, rhythm, and hypnotic repetition of the bolero from the score into the movement.
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