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Bolero
- Authors: Michael Pinchbeck1, Ollie Smith2, (and company)
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Manchester Metropolitan University 2 >University of Lincoln
- Source: Following the Score , pp 25-55
- Publication Date: April 2024
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389333_3
- Language: English
The full performance text of postdramatic devised theatre performance, Bolero. In 1928, Maurice Ravel wrote Bolero in Paris. In 1984, Torvill and Dean danced to it at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Eight years later the stadium where they won gold was bombed. Working with the music as a bridge, Bolero takes a journey from Paris to Sarajevo, from 1914 to 1994, from the First World War to the Bosnian War to the present day. The performance is a biography of Ravel and the music of Bolero.
Bolero is part of The Ravel Trilogy (2014-2018), devised by Pinchbeck & Smith. Each piece deconstructs a piece of classical music by the composer, Maurice Ravel, and transposes it into contemporary performance as score theatre. In doing so, the body of devised theatre work asks questions of the relationships between dramaturgy and musicology, performance score and music score, stage direction and musical notation.
Keywords: Classical music ; Composed theatre ; Composition ; Concert theatre ; Contemporary performance ; Devised theatre ; Dramaturgy ; Immersive theatre ; Musical scores ; Musicology ; Narrative ; Orchestral theatre ; Performance scores ; Postdramatic ; Score theatre
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9781789389333
Bolero
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References
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Goss, Madeleine (2007), Bolero – The Life of Maurice Ravel, London: Goss Press.
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Smith, David James (2009), One Morning in Sarajevo: The True Story of the Assassination That Changed the World, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Transcription of video: ‘Zubin Mehta Rehearsal Bolero’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l54zWfpml3c. Accessed 31 August 2023 .
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Various extracts from interviews with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
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Transcription of Olympic commentary of Torvill and Dean's performance.
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Various extracts from interviews with Maurice Ravel, https://www.orchestralbassoon.com/ravel-bolero.
[Citing articles]
[Web of Science]
[Medline]
References
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Goss, Madeleine (2007), Bolero – The Life of Maurice Ravel, London: Goss Press.
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Smith, David James (2009), One Morning in Sarajevo: The True Story of the Assassination That Changed the World, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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Transcription of video: ‘Zubin Mehta Rehearsal Bolero’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l54zWfpml3c. Accessed 31 August 2023 .
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Various extracts from interviews with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
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Transcription of Olympic commentary of Torvill and Dean's performance.
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Various extracts from interviews with Maurice Ravel, https://www.orchestralbassoon.com/ravel-bolero.
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