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This chapter offers critical and creative insight into the dramaturgical decision-making process behind The Ravel Trilogy. Influenced by Barba's tripartite model of dramaturgy, including the organic, narrative and evocative levels of scenic development, the chapter maps key milestones on the journey of each performance, spotlighting examples of our devising process in action, and demonstrating how the pieces enter into ongoing intertextual dialogue. The chapter proceeds in three stages, ‘Making Bolero: (Un)Ravelling the score’, ‘Making Concerto: Inhabiting the score’, and ‘Making Solo: Embodying the score’.

We follow the tripartite structure of Exposition/Development/Recapitulation. ‘The Exposition’ is our introduction to the work's themes, and the themes of each contributor's response to it. ‘The Development’ refers to our reflections on the development of each performance, with specific reference to their departure from the musical scores. ‘The Recapitulation’ is our return to the themes explored by the work and our attempt to form a conclusion.

Keywords: Classical music ; Composed theatre ; Composition ; Concert theatre ; Devised theatre ; Dramaturgy ; Immersive theatre ; Musical scores ; Musicology ; Narrative ; Orchestral theatre ; Performance ; Performance scores ; Postdramatic ; Score theatre

Hardback ISBN: 9781789389333
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The Development
Intellect , 10 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389333_2
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References

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References

  1. Barba, Eugenio (2010), On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House (trans. J. Barba), Abingdon: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Campbell, Patrick and Turner, Jane (2021), A Poetics of Third Theatre: Performer Training, Dramaturgy, Cultural Action, London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Classic FM, ‘Ravel: 15 facts about the great composer’, Classic FM, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/ravel/guides/ravel-15-facts/. Accessed 25 October 2022 .
  4. Coetzee, Marie-Heleen and Munro, Allan (2014), ‘Dramaturgies in/of South Africa’, in M. Romanska (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, London: Routledge, pp. 105–10.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Davie, Scott (2021), ‘Decoding the music masterpieces: Ravel's Bolero – A sinuous and sexy composition with “no music in it”’, The Conversation [online], 2 February, https://theconversation.com/decoding-the-music-masterpieces-ravels-bolero-a-sinuous-and-sexy-composition-with-no-music-in-it-149528. Accessed 25 October 2022 .
  6. Etchells, Tim (2009), ‘Doing time’, Performance Research, 14:3, pp. 71–80.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. Goss, Madeleine (2007), Bolero – The Life of Maurice Ravel, London: Goss Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Kendrick, Lynne (2017), Theatre Aurality, London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Lehmann, Hans-Thies (2006), Postdramatic Theatre (trans. K. Jürs-Munby), Abingdown, New York: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Charles S. Dubin (dir.) (1980), M*A*S*H, Season 8 Episode 19 (24 February, USA).
  11. Myers, Misha (2011), ‘Vocal landscaping: The theatre of sound in audio walks’, in L. Kendrick and D. Roesner (eds), Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance, Newcastle: CSP.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Nichols, Roger (2011), Ravel, Yale: Yale University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. O'Shea, Ryan (2018), ‘Celebrating Concerto in Cologne’, Michael Pinchbeck Blog, http://michaelpinchbeck.co.uk/area/blog/#celebrating-concerto-in-cologne. Accessed 10 May 2022 .
  14. Pinchbeck, Michael (2012), ‘Composing’, Making Bolero Blog, 8 January, https://makingbolero.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/composing/. Accessed 10 May 2022 .
  15. Pinchbeck, Michael (2013), ‘Rewriting Bolero’, Making Bolero Blog, 11 January, https://makingbolero.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/rewriting-bolero/. Accessed 10 May 2022 .
  16. Smith, Ollie (2014), ‘Zenica’, Making Bolero Blog, 16 October, https://makingbolero.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/zenica/. Accessed 25 October 2022 .
  17. Walton, Rachael (2018), ‘Rachael Walton: Third Angel’, Essential Drama Online, http://essentialdrama.com/practitioners/rachaelwalton-thirdangel/. Accessed 28 March 2020 .

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