Tchaikovsky and dance: from music to movement

Eleonora Dominijanni

About this exposition

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.

type	research exposition
keywords	Tchaikovsky, dance, collaboration, choreography and performance
date	21/11/2022
published	19/07/2023
last modified	19/07/2023
status	limited publication
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copyright	Eleonora Dominijanni
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url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1099240/1099643
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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copyright	Heifetz alum Zlatomir Fung, a 2018 Artist in Residence, returns to the Institute to perform Tchaikovsky's Variations On A Rococo Theme, Op. 33, with faculty pianist Carlos Avila. Captured in concert in Francis Auditorium at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, VA, summertime home of the Heifetz Institute
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copyright	Performed by Evgeny Kissin (Piano), Joshua Bell (Violin) and Mischa Maisky (Cello) live in 2009. Variazione II
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copyright	Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - The Kirov Ballet
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copyright	Finale to Swan Lake by the American Ballet Theater will Gillian Murphy and Angel Corella. Scene Finale, Andante.Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari.
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copyright	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, TH 30, ČW 27 "Pathétique" (with Score), Adagio lamentoso Composed: August 1893 Conductor: Evgeny Mravinsky Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Recording: 1961
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copyright	For Chautauqua Festival Ballet, John Clifford, I mov. Tchaikovsky piano concerto 1. Anita Pacylowski and Benjamin Pierce lead the first movement.Whitt Kellogg the pianist.
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