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Roaratorio [extrait 32 minutes]
Un chaos poétique insensé mais non pas insensible, un projet totalement fou, qui se voulait non fini et finit par tendre à l’infini. (1983 – reprise 2010)
(1983 – reprise 2010)
Choreography : Merce Cunningham
Music : John Cage
Created by John Cage, based on Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Roaratorio is a completely crazy project that was intentionally unfinished, tending towards the infinite. Roaratorio is an atypical piece amongstthe works of Merce Cunningham. The choreography seems to give body to James Joyce’s literature, like an incarnation of the tongue beyond language.
Générique
Choreography : Merce Cunningham
Music : John Cage, « Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake »
Set, light : Mark Lancaster
With : Brandon Collwes, Dylan Crossman, Julie Cunningham, Emma Desjardins, Jennifer Goggans, John Hinrichs, Daniel Madoff, Rashaun Mitchell, Marcie Munnerlyn, Krista Nelson, Silas Riener, Jamie Scott, Robert Swinston, Melissa Toogood, Andrea Weber
Reprise 2010 : Patricia Lent, Robert Swinston
Duration : 1 heure
Filmed by Marie-Hélène Rebois for the special journey about « Montpellier Danse 30 years old » – Arte july 3rd 2010
Production : Leslie Grunberg, les films Pénélope
John Cage
John Cage was born in 1912 in Los Angeles, and died on August 12, 1992. Composer and thinker, he was part of the American avant-garde for a number of years—perhaps the American composer which had the greatest impact on all contemporary music. Constantly exploring new possibilities, John Cage’s music always found different ways of expression: prepared piano, radios, unusual percussion instruments, electric and electronic sounds, chance, the I Ching, silence… During the 1960s, his quest was directed toward a greater integration of life in art, a quest met by many vicious attacks.
