Tchaikovsky: Embodied Listening
Pre-concert lecture-demonstration with My'Kal Stromile
Admission to this event is only available to patrons with tickets to the 8pm BSO performance on January 23. Due to limited space a separate RSVP for the talk is required to attend. An email invitation to RSVP will be sent to ticket holders for the evening performance. Please contact BSO Customer Service at 617-266-1200 with any questions. to patrons with tickets to the 8pm BSO performance on January 23.
Tchaikovsky: Embodied Listening
You may think you know Tchaikovsky. This pre-concert session invites you to listen again, with your body.
Movement architect, choreographer, and former Boston Ballet dancer, My'Kal Stromile has created works for the Paris Opera Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ailey II, and the Vail Dance Festival. He leads a hands-on exploration of how Tchaikovsky's music is built. Simple gestures bring rhythm, syncopation, tempo, and the silence between notes into focus. What might we discover by moving slowly through an allegro, or dynamically through an adagio? What changes when a famous melody arrives in fragments before it arrives whole? Stromile took up questions like these in Law's Logos, his work drawn from Act III of Swan Lake. Here he pairs them with a thread of Balanchine, who heard dance in Tchaikovsky's music even where it was never written for the stage.
This is a listening session, not a dance class. No experience with dance, music theory, or Tchaikovsky is needed. Come curious, and take what you notice into the hall.
