“The entire performance, directed by choreographer Benjamin Vandewalle, is characterized by a fresh playfulness in sound and image. All the musical beauty is enhanced by the design.”
The Theater newspaper
The world of French composer Maurice Ravel captures the imagination. The mysterious dandy was a master at bringing musical worlds to life. From folk melodies and fairy tales like Ma Mère l'Oye to orchestral experiments like his over-famous Boléro, which he himself called music without music.
In the performance, we watch Ravel as a child growing up in the home of his father, an engineer and inventor. The many radar works that little Maurice is shown seem to open the door to his own imagination. Four musicians move in a kaleidoscopic setting. Tiny spotlights illuminate instruments and machines, turning them into magical shadows. We hear machines producing sound and, of course, the wonderful music of the master himself. Step by step, Ravel's creative world is unraveled and you may even become one of his cats.
After the success of Berberio (2016), chamber music ensemble Revue Blanche and Zonzo Compagnie are teaming up again. This time around an iconic composer: Maurice Ravel in arrangements by Frederik Neyrinck. WIThWIT provides the scenography and, as with THELONIOUS (2019), the direction is in the hands of Benjamin Vandewalle.
A production of ZONZO and Revue Blanche | compositions: Maurice Ravel | musical performance Revue Blanche: Lore Binon (vocals), Caroline Peeters (flute), Anouk Sturtewagen (harp) and Kris Hellemans (viola) | direction: Benjamin Vandewalle | scenography: WIThWIT: Erki De Vries and Freija Van Esbroeck | arrangements Frederik Neyrinck | costumes: Nina Lopez Le Galliard | co-production: Concertgebouw Brugge | Les Festivals de Wallonie neimënster | Opéra de Lillle | Perpodium | Philharmonie de Paris | with support from the Belgian federal government's tax shelter measure through uFund
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