Work
La Ballerina Del Diavolo (solo piano)
by Yitzhak Yedid (2019)
Also known as: The Devil's Ballerina
Work Overview
La Ballerina Del Diavolo (The Devil's
Ballerina) is about an imaginary, but somehow also
realistic, scenario of the tensions that we as humans experience
between the 'good' and 'bad' components of our beings. This
'badness' is represented in my work by a ballerina, a visual
embodiment of inner psychosis.
It is
in human nature to want to be 'the best', to want to 'lead', to
want to be 'the winner'. Sometimes it feels like our life is in
constant competition, perhaps real, or perhaps imagined. I
wonder, is the ballerina a hypochondriac, or is she just
documenting what she witnesses in our society?
Work Details
Year: 2019
Instrumentation: Solo piano, optional dancer (improvising).
Duration: 8 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
Dedication note: Dedicated to Alex Raineri
First performance: by Alex Raineri at bloodpaths (The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts) on 29 Nov 2019
Performances of this work
27 Oct 2023: at Festival Gala #2 | Brisbane Music Festival (FourthWall Arts). Featuring Alex Raineri.
1 Dec 2019: at bloodpaths (The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts). Featuring Alex Raineri.
29 Nov 2019: at bloodpaths (The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts). Featuring Alex Raineri.
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