Sat 2.6. 18.00 ORANGERIE
CHOREOGRAPHY BY RUI HORTA ON SONATAS AND INTERLUDES
FOR PREPARED PIANO BY JOHN CAGE
For over a decade, Rui Horta has been considered one of the trend-setting choreographers of our time. He considers “Danza Preparata” for the “prepared body” of the dancer Silvia Bertoncelli as a study in the role of chance and counterpoint in his investigation of the relationship between movement on stage and sound. The interest of the young John Cage in an emancipation of noise sounds came simultaneously with the beginning of his work for this ballet. As there was frequently no room for percussion on stage during ballet tours, he invented the piano which had been converted into a battery of percussion.
The hour-long cycle of Sonatas and Interludes (1946-47) is probably the most well-known composition for prepared piano.
Silvia Bertoncelli Dance
Rolf Hind Prepared Piano
Production: Casa da Música and O Espaço do Tempo. in cooperation with KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Gulbenkian Foundation, Salzburg Biennale, and Guimarães European City of Culture 2012.
Supported by Réseau Varèse, the cultural programme of the European Commission.
