Can dance be a bridge between sport and music? Find out this Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 8:00 PM at the Palais des Victoires in Cannes.
Yes, says Philippe Bender, who had the idea of bringing together in one show the professional volleyball players of the Racing Club de Cannes, pianist François René Duchable, musicians from the ORCPACA, students from the music conservatories of the Côte d’Azur participating in SYMPHO-NEW 2011, students from the École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, and young players from the junior and National 3 volleyball teams.
Trained by their captain, Victoria Ravva, the players of the Racing Club de Cannes women’s volleyball team will perform to Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, adapting all the volleyball moves to the forms of music.
Demand, discipline, daily training, the pursuit of perfection, and creativity are as many common points between artists and high-level athletes. This daily work will be illustrated by a parallel warm-up session with the young dancers on one side and the junior volleyball players on the other.
François René Duchable has left traditional concert halls for several years to reach an audience more eager for blends.
This internationally renowned pianist, a lover of mountains and cycling, has abandoned conventional concerts for a different appreciation of the classical repertoire, choosing to live his music differently. He was undoubtedly the man for the job.
During the evening, the upper class 1 students of the École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower will dance “Out Break” [choreography by Joëlle Donati and Jeff Pizieau, music by Terry Riley after In C].
The Préludes by Liszt will give rise to a parade with the participation of both artists and athletes.
This symphonic work, created in 1854, was inspired by Franz Liszt from Lamartine’s New Poetic Meditations.
A brilliant musical peroration in which the orchestra showcases a variety of colors and movements, alternating contrasting atmospheres like those of life: joys and sorrows, worry and serenity, victories and defeats, life’s struggles are expressed from primordial force to inexorable death.
