Steve Reich - Piano Phase dance (1/2)

[MrProphetMan]

pure madness, I love it, the flow of expression the madness in the sequence, the strength of rhythm...

amazing!

[ahmedserdaroglu]

Is it pure perfection or what? You can literally see the reflection of the musical phase difference on the wall...

[Superphilipp]

Here's a stupid question: Shouldn't the dancers get out of phase too?

[bolenattt]

@Superphilip they go out of phase with eachother

[Superphilipp]

@bolenattt I don't see it. There's only the pirouettes at around 7:50, they go out of phase. But the rest is completely in synch, except for natural imprecisions. It doesn't seem to follow the phase shift of the music at least.

[DianaMauTempo]

beautiful.



[eliteth]

shadow in the middle (as the results of two dancers) is what it's all about. musically by visual effect.

match, mismatch, flow.

...humbly appreciation.

[MrPtroll]

Great! Who did the choreography? The dancers theirselves?

[MisterGaGa1685]

Performance tout simplement grandiose. J'ai les larmes aux yeux devant la beauté de la chorégraphie à la fois sobre dans les mouvements et extrêmement difficile pour illustrer les phase et dé-phase du piano. Cela représente la perfection. Extraordinaire danseuses!!!!

[vonfactory]

やっぱこれは最高にいい。

[AliBritney]

This scares me.

[Vitaluv]

I love this piece and low and behold I watch Beyonce's new video to see what she stole this time and don't you know she basically did this verbatim and did not even bother to credit.

[heyheyguesswhat]

@Vitaluv interestingly enough, this was not the dance she stole. oh well, try again next time.

[Vitaluv]

@heyheyguesswhat They actually did with the way they were spinning around. And Anne kind of did this again in Rosas Danst Rosas. This was the first video I had ever seen of Anne's and I immediately made the connection with that.. And I also commented the same on her other videos. So you can have several seats.

[heyheyguesswhat]

@Vitaluv i figured that you commented the same on her other videos even before i left my comment, you had no need to point that out. the point of this dance is, as the music suggests, the phase. the spinning around in the beyonce video did not even start to emulate this, for one, only one person is in view as the said "spinning around" is being performed. i don't think you quite understand, but i will repeat myself, this was not the dance she stole.

[Vitaluv]

@heyheyguesswhat I know where she stole it from. That was my point. But my other point was that the "spinning" in RDR reminded me of this, which was the first thing I'd ever seen her do. And so my mind automatically went to this first. I know she basically took everything from there and another piece. I might have worded it better but I've been on painkillers for the past month, and cooped up in the house so I'm kind of out if it.

[fryBASS]

I was really hoping that the dancers would go out of phase with eachother ....

[heyheyguesswhat]

@fryBASS actually, they did, one example is beginning @ 3:45

[aljen07]

Musically is more interesting. Visually is not very interesting.

[BertisWorldYT]

@aljen07 yeah they did not dance in phase shifting.

[heroetroyano1]

Like Rafa Mendez would say: "¡Súper coreografía, amazing que te cagas energy!"

[Artms125]

This is fantastic, a perfect interpretation of the piece. Well done indeed!

[rde123456]

AMAZING! Truly Stunning and would love to see live.

[gyozalover]

This is one of the most incredible things I ever saw! Thank you!

[Binouzours]

Oh man, I was looking for this video for so long, it's incredible!

Thank you so so much. Do you have videos from "Rain" and "Drumming" choregraphies?

Thanks again!

[ZaraGlaser]

I love the middle shadow!

[theprof1958]

I have seen a piano player who played Piano Phase on two pianos, one with the left hand and the other with right hand!

This is UNBELIEVABLE, I know, so please go and see with your eyes

watch?v=qKXy1FPTdvg

[dan1880712125847]

@theprof1958 there are a lot of piano players that play to keyboards at once.

[theprof1958]

@dan1880712125847

Did you see the clip?

watch?v=qKXy1FPTdvg

Peter Aidu plays the whole Reich's composition alone, playing the scores of two piano players

Scores that are very similar, but different, to create the phase effect

[dan1880712125847]

@theprof1958 oh.. but that's a difficult composition. NOT! 6 notes each hand. :O

Watch Camilo's left hand from second 48. watch?v=LcxZXxlOFx8

Now that's called a good composition.

Of course, i shouldn't compare two different styles of music.

[TreeshipTV]

@dan1880712125847 I guess the really tough part is when one of the two pianos slightly speeds up. Basically that's the most interesting thing about piano phase. I guess for one person playing BOTH pianos at the same time, this must be an act of highest concentration.

[missscissors1]

@dan1880712125847 that's not what is amazing about that pianist, the guy is playing the same melody on a slightly different tempo, and that's kind of difficult to do..

[DKJana]

What does 'Phase' mean? Because I find it in every title of this kind of dance but I cant' find it's meaning... :)

[theprof1958]

@DKJana

Phase is related to the music of Steve Reich

"In Piano Phase the performers repeat a rapid twelve-note melodic figure, initially in unison. As one player keeps tempo with robotic precision, the other speeds up very slightly until the two parts line up again, but one sixteenth note apart. The second player then resumes the previous tempo.

[DKJana]

@theprof1958

Thanks! Really interesting! Think it's very difficult to play :)

[theprof1958]

@DKJana

This cycle of speeding up and then locking in continues throughout the piece; the cycle comes full circle three times, the second and third cycles using shorter versions of the initial figure."

(en.wikipedia)

[sergeeo]

@DKJana The concept comes from tape music experiments. Two tapes play the same thing, but you slow down one just a little bit. This creates kind of a "delay effect". Steve Reich took this from tape to sheet music.

This concept of slight desynchronization appears in music and dance in this video :)

Sorry about my English! ;)

[larubilapode]

que bestias!!!

[denyscollin]

super musique et merveilleuse chorégraphie!!!

[25gianfranco1953]

Grandioso, stupefacentemente grandioso, come tutta la musica di Reich.

[theomartinus]

sharp

[adambuc]

It should be up a semitone

but absolutely creative dance

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

I feel myself being hypnotised by these sounds! XD

[fhedblues2]

crazy

[TheRavingRandomist]

funny thing to note

that our very existence

is contingent upon the bre-

aking of symm-M-mmmetrie(s)

[TheRavingRandomist]

A *sweet disorder* in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction-- An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher-- A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly-- A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat-- A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility-- . Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.

[2ER01D]

superior grace

prestabilized harmony

[expander64]

Congenial music, coreography and artists. Enjoying that is worth to spend the rest of life with (plus coming trillion rebirths). Thank you very very much.

[MrEfappa]

la percezione imperfetta del perfetto

[vitualgill]

wow...All i can say

[AmiralPingouin]

Incroyablement bien transposé et interprété !

[Sardrasix]

magnifique et extraordinaire. Danser sur du Steve Reich est tout simplement extraordinaire.

[latijapo12]

Awesome! And an highly realistic representation of the nature

[Aafkejazz]

amazing...