.svg)
one Sonata, two movements
one cello, two dancers
one graphic score, two interpretations
one collaboration, two approaches
connecting lines:
musical - physical
geometric - musical
dancers PJ Hurst and Joel O' Donoghue.
choreographer Harriet Macauley,
composer Daniel Ehrlich,
cellist Gage Ehmann,
ines
igeti
The meeting of blue and yellow enacts the creative tension on which collaboration thrives.
According to the artist Wassily Kandinsky (20c.), these two colours establish a fundamental spiritual opposition: blue gravitates towards the earth, while yellow radiates to the heavens.
The line where these two colours meet represents the unique line of communication
that generates the various dualities of this project.
Overview
When I was first learning the Ligeti Solo Cello Sonata, coincidence presented
the choreography of George Balanchine, performed by a male/female duet.
It was the dynamic between these dancers that evoked Ligeti's tale.
She his secret love, a cellist who inspired the first 'Dialogo' movement of
the Solo Sonata, rejected this amorous token (a story likely borrowed from that
of the 1st Bartók Violin Concerto). But within the dance it was the continuity
of line, the articulation of gesture that inspired me: at that moment as a musician,
I desired the expressive power of bodies in motion through dance.
Forward to the not-so-distant past: I combined watercolour, pastel, wax, and ink
in images that I believe represented my impression of the Ligeti Solo Cello Sonata. Where I saw imitation, composer Dan Ehrlich found inspiration, and he used some of the graphic score pages as compositional sketches for his new solo cello piece, Lines for Gage.
Come full circle: after weeks of planning with choreographer Harriet Macauley, and more weeks of rehearsal with Harriet and dancers PJ Hurst and
Joel O'Donoghue, the choreographed Ligeti Solo Cello Sonata and
new Lines for Gage met on one program. Here and now, on this site, you should explore. Beyond the product, explore the process that is Ligetilines.
...up to LL menu
Why Ligetilines?
Music and dance unfold in time while visual art offers a consistency
that allows it to mediate between them. While the Ligeti Solo Cello Sonata
served as the creative locus of this project, creating a graphic interpretation
of the music enabled responses that are both reflective of and independent from
the original music. For its bottom line, Ligetilines uses a graphic score,
which creates and communicates as product and process blur.
to read more...
Ligetilines Process: Introduction
copyright © 2016 W. Gage Ehmann || site designed and created by W. Gage Ehmann
successfully funded on
