Conducting Movement: Xavier Le Roy and the Amplification of Le Sacre du Printemps
2011; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5406/danceresearchj.43.1.0065
ISSN1940-509X
Autores Tópico(s)Music Technology and Sound Studies
ResumoThe dancer, Xavier Le Roy, walks with a calm yet deliberate pace across the empty stage toward its center, where he stops, with his back facing the audience. He slowly lifts his arms in front of him and, after a brief moment of suspension, makes a hand gesture, as focused as unexpected, as if channeling a stream of intensities—a gesture to which the music responds. Echoing Le Roy's movement, Igor Stravinsky's most notorious score, Le Sacre du Printemps , begins its first notes. The performer goes on gently whisking the air, with a fluid yet measured pace, and thus engages an uncanny dialogue with the recorded symphony by conducting the seemingly empty space before him.
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