Thursday, December 11, 2014

Fall Festival: Romeo Castellucci danced dust – The World

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In & quot; The Rite of Spring & quot; directed by Romeo Castellucci, the scene is a box at the top of which are hung on rails, strange machines that release the dust.

As we know, The Rite of Spring scandal, when creating the Champs-Elysées Theatre, May 29, 1913. But that “massacre of Spring” , as “good” word of his detractors, was also a milestone in the history of arts. A century, a year and a few months later, The Rite of Spring Romeo Castellucci could make history, too.

“show”, so to and call this astonishing scenic unidentified object, not a scandal, nor when it was created on August 15 in Duisburg, Germany, the festival Ruhrtriennale or at the first Paris performance, which took place Tuesday, December 9 to 13 pm at the Grande Halle de la Villette. No scandal, no, but a profound upheaval and disorder, noticeable in attendance. The Sacre is a well, appearing as a peak in the work of this artist quite important what Romeo Castellucci, and as a climax of this vast movement which from about thirty years, made the scene the scope of all formal possible, the place par excellence of the total art dreamed by Wagner and many others.

Because this is obviously not the thousandth the work of Stravinsky and Nijinsky as the Italian artist book here. It is not its negation. Romeo Castellucci, as always, has studied the original work carefully. But, as he told us in an interview in August, “this notion of rite of spring, after the Dionysian spirit of Russian folklore …

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