In honor of the first centenary of the pivotal composition and ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), Body Cinéma was inspired to pay tribute to this monumental production by examining its universal influence through a screendance lens. Although hundreds of versions of Le Sacre du Printemps have been seen on stages around the world, the ballet and composition have rarely, if at all, been imagined for the screendance medium. Working in collaboration with the Vienna Symphonic Library, whose artist Jay Bacal recreated the orchestral score on a computer, Body Cinéma divided Stravinsky's legendary music into 13 parts that were then assigned to various international screendance artists. Upon completion, all portions were assembled to create a seamless collage of the entire Le Sacre du Printemps score.
Artists were given total liberty to interpret the music and themes of the work in any dance and cinematic style. Some of the participants completed detailed historical research, echoing motifs and references to the original production; while others focused on their relationship to the music in a more abstract sense. Circles, cycles, nature, duality, life, death...all the themes that Nijinsky and Stravinsky so meticulously explored in their original work can still be felt today through new tools and new voices, underlining the production's continued universality. Sacre/ilège(s) is both a tribute to the original production's title and a play on the French word sacrilège, the artistic freedom to depart from the past and imagine entirely new ways of representing and understanding Le Sacre du Printemps for our time.
The Sacre/ilège(s) project attracted 65 artists from over 25 different countries. Body Cinéma/International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy completed five collage cycles featuring the numerous participants.
The following artists are featured in this collage cycle:
1.) Guy Wigmore – director (United Kingdom) / Masumi Saito – choreography & performance (Japan)
2.) Ludovico Chincarini – director (Italy) / Elena Borgatti – choreography (Italy)
3.) ClotildeAmprimoz–director(France)/C.Amprimoz&Kirkpinarperformers–choreography&
performance (Turkey)
4.) Jean-Camille Goimard – director & choreographer (France)
5.) Marisa C. Hayes – director & choreographer (USA/France)
6.) Kathy Rose – director & choreographer (USA)
7.) Toyo Matsubara – director & choreographer (Japan)
8.) Maurice Lai – director / Scarlet Yu – choreography & performance (Hong Kong)
9.) Angharad Harrop – director & choreographer (United Kingdom)
10.) Richard James Allen – director & choreographer (Australia)
11.) Diana Heyne – director & choreographer (USA/France)
12.) Katxere Medina – director & choreographer (Brazil)
13.) Franck Boulègue – director & choreographer (France)
Other Credits:
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Performed & mixed by Jay Bacal
With additional engineering & mastering by Dietz Tinhof (Vienna Symphonic Library) Collage concpt & construction: Body Cinéma (Marisa C. Hayes & Franck Boulègue) Producted by: Body Cinéma/International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy
All works copyright the individual artist 2013
Performed & mixed by Jay Bacal
With additional engineering & mastering by Dietz Tinhof (Vienna Symphonic Library) Collage concpt & construction: Body Cinéma (Marisa C. Hayes & Franck Boulègue) Producted by: Body Cinéma/International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy
All works copyright the individual artist 2013
