In this class, we will be learning a piece from the repertoire of the world renowned Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company entitled Ravel: Landscape or Portrait? This work responds to Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major (1903), reflecting the wistful and melancholic sentiment of the score as well as its precision and restraint. Similar to the music’s complicated internal logic, one of two choreographic variations for the third movement (either landscape or portrait) is selected by chance procedure before each performance.
