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Noces / Quatuor
Recorded at the CND 4 April 2013
In Noces / Quatuor (Wedding/quartet), Aurélien Richard questions the connections and tensions that develop between choreographic and musical structures, between the bodies of a dancer and a musician.
For this creation, Aurélien Richard questions the relationship (of force) between music and dance which plays out in “Noces” (The Wedding), a piece from 1923 composed by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska with set design by Natalia Gontcharova.
Based on transcripts of the original choreography and the photographic and film evidence of various versions of the work, Aurélien Richard establishes a supply of thirteen postures. By varying the organisation and interpretative qualities of these postures and by relying on the tempi of the music, he allows his four dancers to commit to the extreme precision of Nijinska’s movement, but also to reinvent these body states in the present.
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Updating: July 2013
