“Bolero” is realized in co-production of the Sarajevo War Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse from Nottingham, and ODA Theatre in Pristina.
The author of the project’s original concept is Michael Pinchbeck, a writer, and live and performance artist from Nottingham, who brought together an international team for this project. Project partner is the British Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1928 in Paris, French composer Maurice Ravel wrote the orchestral piece “Bolero”. At the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984, British Olympians in figure skating, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, performed their set dancing to the music of “Bolero”. In Sarajevo, Jayne and Christopher became the highest scoring duo in the history of figure skating. Eight years later, the sports hall in which they performed was shelled. Working with music as the bridge that connects these two stories, Michael Pinchbeck departs on a journey from Paris to Sarajevo, from 1928 to 1984, to Winter Olympics, to the Bosnian War. “Bolero” explores the creation of music and making history with this music, looking back on how the glory of the Sarajevo Olympics was covered in blood a few years later. It is about the intertwining and unfolding of cultural and political history that leaves no one indifferent. The project embarks on a conceptual journey from creativity to deterioration, from the composition to the conflict, in order to respond to the structure of Ravel’s music and the choreography of the dance numbers on ice.
Running time: 75 min.
The play can be seen on October 12th at 18:00 o’clock at the address Gabelina 16.
(Source: Sarajevo Travel)
