Bolero

Pinchbeck, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8444-5549 and Smith, Ollie (2024) Bolero. In: Following the Score: The Ravel Trilogy. Playtext . Intellect, Bristol, pp. 25-55. ISBN 9781789389333 (hardback); 9781789389357 (ebook); 9781789389340 (ebook)

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Abstract

The full performance text of postdramatic devised theatre performance, Bolero. In 1928, Maurice Ravel wrote Bolero in Paris. In 1984, Torvill and Dean danced to it at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Eight years later the stadium where they won gold was bombed. Working with the music as a bridge, Bolero takes a journey from Paris to Sarajevo, from 1914 to 1994, from the First World War to the Bosnian War to the present day. The performance is a biography of Ravel and the music of Bolero. Bolero is part of The Ravel Trilogy (2014-2018), devised by Pinchbeck & Smith. Each piece deconstructs a piece of classical music by the composer, Maurice Ravel, and transposes it into contemporary performance as score theatre. In doing so, the body of devised theatre work asks questions of the relationships between dramaturgy and musicology, performance score and music score, stage direction and musical notation.