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CLASSIQUE - Variation n°7 - Épreuves de danse 2025
Fin de cycle diplômant, garçon 2ème option
CLASSIQUE
Variation n°7
Fin de cycle diplômant (DEC) (Admission EAT) – garçon – 2ème option – reprise 2024
Chorégraphe-transmetteur : Ryan KELLY
Compositeur : Julius EASTMAN – Gay Guerrilla
©Eastman Music Publishing Company et Music Sales Corp
Avec l’aimable autorisation de Campbell Connelly France
Danseur : Marlon THIEBAUX-AMARANTHE
Réalisé par Gilles LE MAO
Production exécutive : La Huit Production
Informations et brochure : https://www.culture.gouv.fr/fr/Thematiques/Danse/Enseignement-formation-et-metiers/diplome-d-etat-de-professeur-de-danse-examen-d-aptitude-technique-eat
©2024 Ministère de la Culture
Fighting the invisibility of minority cultures at the same time as racial and sexual discrimination, Julius Eastman (1940-1990), an artist with an independent and combative spirit, asserted himself to be “black to the fullest, musician to the fullest, homosexual to the fullest” . A prominent member of the New York scene as a composer, conductor, singer, pianist and choreographer, Julius Eastman also performed at Lincoln Center with Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic and recorded an album of experimental disco with producer Arthur Russell.
“Eastman is something of a cult figure among composers and singers,” reads a 1980 press release. A pioneer of the minimalist movement, he is in fact one of the first composers to combine elements of pop music with minimalist music.
He fell into oblivion when he died in 1990 after seven years of “voluntary martyrdom”, between taking psychotropic drugs and wandering in shelters for the homeless. A large number of his scores disappeared with him. His music lay dormant for decades until Unjust Malaise, a three-CD set of his compositions, was released in 2005 by New World Records. Since the beginning of the 2010s, his work has been rediscovered and aroused growing interest, in particular thanks to the work of composer Mary Jane Leach.
Une nouvelle attention est aujourd’hui portée à la musique et à la vie d’Eastman, ponctuée notamment par la découverte de nouveaux enregistrements et manuscrits, la publication du livre Gay Guerrilla par Renée Levine Packer et Mary Jane Leach (traduit en français en 2022, Éditions 1989, Paris), et un intérêt contemporain de la part des artistes, musiciens, chorégraphes, universitaires et journalistes. « La musique effrontée et brillante de Julius Eastman (…) retient l’attention : sauvage, grandiose, délirante, démoniaque, une personnalité incontrôlable surgissant dans le son », écrit Alex Ross pour The New Yorker. L’œuvre de Julius Eastman est aujourd’hui représentée par l’éditeur G. Schirmer.
