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Tchaikovsky and dance: from music to movement (2023)

Eleonora Dominijanni
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The idea of writing a new, original ballet is born in a bizarre, but actually very natural way. One afternoon I was listening to the Trio in A minor for piano, violin and cello by P.I. Tchaikovsky and happened spontaneously connect some of the melodies to different imaginary characters. I liked this natural tendency so much that I had the idea of trying to invent a story with the characters I pictured, following the order of the variations of the second movement, Variazione finale and coda. At that moment I realized that I was imagining all of this narrated through movement and dance. I was therefore creating a ballet on a Tchaikovsky instrumental composition. From this starting point I started wondering Why and How I could create a fairy narrative story around this music. I wanted to understand and find out what the “magical ingredient” is around Tchaikovsky’s music that makes it so recognizably linked with characters and stories, movement and dance. In this research I will therefore analyze the link between music and dance in the Russian composer's work, passing through the evolution of the connection of the two arts from the Greek times. The historical research and analysis will be followed by the process in the realization of my ballet, which will be described in its process of realization of a small extract, as an exercise and example of collaboration between musician and dancer.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsTchaikovsky, dance, collaboration, choreography and performance
date21/11/2022
published19/07/2023
last modified19/07/2023
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightEleonora Dominijanni
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1099240/1099643
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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