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Revue macabre
Recorded at the CND 13 March 2015
After Noces/Quatuor, Aurélien Richard continued his research into what constitutes a composition based on archives, whether musical and/or choreographic. For his new piece, REVUE MACABRE, he summons the archetypal figure of the painful death, stylised and magnified by the artists, while combining it with the aesthetic of a popular form that has drawn in a great many creators: the ‘review’, a shape-shifting genre that flourished after the First World War in France and Germany, where very different artists were able to put forward their own material for consideration, song or dance. This piece is very much about addressing the theme of death on multiple levels, including burlesque, even if it causes the audience to laugh and feel uncomfortable at the same time. It is a work on vertigo, and the emptiness that follows laughter, that nothing that leaves human beings dazed when confronted with themselves
Updating: April 2015
