Tanz über Gräben. 100 Jahre Le Sacre du Printemps | Dance over Trenches. The 100th Anniversary of Le Sacre du Printemps | ABSTRACTION / ORNAMENT session (co-moderator Lucia Ruprecht) (original) (raw)

Abstract

Twisted feet, snapped heads, jarring, abrupt movements, rhythmic stomping and trembling. In the end, death by exhaustion, the staged sacrifice for the heathen sun god. Dancing – excessive, powerful, disturbing. The premiere of “Le Sacre du Printemps” at the Parisian Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 29 May 1913 shocked audiences. Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography and Igor Stravinsky’s music created one of the greatest scandals in 20th-century dance history. Performed on the eve of World War I, the ballet uncannily foreshadowed the slaughter on the battlefields: “Le Sacre du Printemps” – a dance over trenches. One hundred years later, an international and interdisciplinary conference will address the special role that “Le Sacre du Printemps” played in dance modernity and as a cultural-historical phenomenon. The debate will focus on the aspects of victims and sacrifice, the relationship between abstraction and ornamentation, and the peculiar interweave of modernism and primitivism. What exactly caused the uproar at the premiere in 1913 and what relevance does the piece have today? The conference is embedded in an extensive event programme which includes reconstructions of earlier choreographies and contemporary versions of “Le Sacre du Printemps”. The scenographer Detlef Weitz has created a video installation for the occasion, which will be shown in the rooms of Radialsystem V. With its call for choreographic pieces highlighting “Le Sacre du Printemps”, the HAU Hebbel am Ufer shall present a selection of young, contemporary approaches to the theme “Dance over Trenches”. Concept: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter / Center of Movement Research (Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung)

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