Steve Reich - Piano Phase dance (1/2)

Dancers
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Michèle Anne De Mey

based on a choreography by
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

second part
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjenPj0u-dc

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Steve
• Reich
• Piano
• Phase
• dance
• Anne
• Teresa
• De
• Keersmaeker
• Michèle
• Mey

[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

[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.

[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)

[MrProphetMan]

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

amazing!

[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.

[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..

[ahmedserdaroglu]

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

[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.

[bolenattt]

@Superphilip they go out of phase with eachother

[Superphilipp]

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

[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?