The multidisciplinary project Re-Orient comprises a selection of the 72 Etudes Karnatiques or piano by Jacques Charpentier (1933-2017) f enriched by original vocal Karnatic music improvisations, Hindustani percussion accompaniments and Indian dance.

 

This performance was conceived to experiment on stage with the process of embodying Indian music in a Western practice through a mirroring interaction between the gestures of the musicians (a Karnatic vocalist, two percussionists and a pianist) and a dancer trained in Indian music.

 

The visual impact produced by the presence of the dancer was meant to establish shared meanings in the performance space-frame (social dimension): to render more accessible and comprehensible, especially for a non-expert audience, the conceptual content behind this contemporary piano work by Charpentier and behind the theory of embodiment.

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