Road Trip

Presentation

What hap­pens when we leave our own world behind to dis­cov­er anoth­er? Road Trip explores what the else­where shifts with­in us: our per­cep­tions, our points of ref­er­ence, but also the way we see our own ori­gins.

At the heart of the pro­ject is Dvořák’s “Amer­ic­an” Quar­tet, com­posed dur­ing his stay in the United States. Har­lem music, European tra­di­tions and influ­ences from the New World meet and trans­form his music­al lan­guage. Around this emblem­at­ic work, Florence Price, Samuel Col­eridge-Taylor, Fran­cis John­son, Viv­aldi and Haydn in turn trace music­al iden­tit­ies shaped by encoun­ters with oth­er cul­tures.

In this new pro­duc­tion by Le Con­cert Idéal, the works enter into dia­logue to cre­ate a music­al dram­at­urgy that travels from one world to anoth­er. Sta­ging, light­ing and move­ment accom­pany this cir­cu­la­tion of influ­ences, ima­gin­a­tions and iden­tit­ies. A jour­ney in which the else­where becomes a lens through which we see ourselves dif­fer­ently, gradu­ally trans­form­ing the way we listen.