Choreographic Re-mix. William Forsythe’s Trio (1996) and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in a Minor Op. 132
Year: 2019
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: and Jacopo Godani to anticipate their movement within the consequent phrase of Beethoven's theme. 1 The second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 in a minor Op. 132 plays a prominent role within this short choreography called Trio, which premiered in 1996 at the Ballett Frankfurt.Despite this interesting example of Forsythe choreographing to or with Beethoven's music, he rarely developed pieces to Beethoven, working instead predominantly with living composers. 2Given the archival video resources within my possession for study of the Ballett Frankfurt in 1996, this conference provided the impetus to analyse Forsythe's interpretation of Beethoven's music in the choreography of Trio -an interpretation in which a recording of the second movement of Op. 132 by the Alban Berg String Quartet is re-mixed. 3 The structure of Forsythe's musical decisions and my analysis of how the music and dance come together in this piece form the focus of this chapter, on the basis of specific research questions shaped further in this introduction.The interrelation of dance and music has been the subject of ample artistic experiments.Looking at recent works in the field of contemporary dance, the scholar Christina Thurner has shown the diverse means by which music and dance can mutually re-charge their interpretation through being paired with one another, creating what she describes as "complex, and purposefully charged audiovisual associative-reflection spaces." 4 Such spaces subvert what the musicologists Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker Archival video of Ballett Frankfurt, 3 January 1996.Rehearsal and performance videos were generously provided by William Forsythe.Warm thanks to Alexandra Scott
Author: Elizabeth Waterhouse
Language: German
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3034091019