Sunday, February 23 • 6:30pm
Boléro
Anne Fontaine, DCP, 120 min
France, 2024 (French, English)
Midwest premiere
During the années folles in Paris, dancer Ida Rubenstein commissions Maurice Ravel to create the music for her next ballet. In this loosely adapted biography, the solitary composer, inspirationally at a loss, turns inward and, revisiting key moments and figures of his life, writes the 16-min symphonie mécanique that will become a universal masterpiece.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Dance and the Music Department
Talkback with Bernard Zinck (Music Department, Peck School of the Arts)