Balanchine ballet with Webern: music stops, dancing continues
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Balanchine staged a Webern ballet where after the music stops the dancers continue, the effect is horrific, as if the dancers are deprived of their life substance, death itself dancing, the ultimate autonomized partial object.
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“Dancers dance, the music stops and the dancing goes on. And the effect is absolutely horrific.”
“After the music was over... the dancers continued to dance for some time in complete silence, as if they did not notice that music that provided the substance for their dance is already over.”
“music stops they continue to dance I mean the effect was terrifying as if the living dead”
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George Balanchine3Sergio Leone3Anton Webern3Ambrose Bierce1Karl Kraus1Eve Ensler1Éric Rohmer1Joe Ashkenazi1
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Balanchine staged a Webern ballet where after the music stops the dancers continue, the effect is horrific, as if the dancers are deprived of their life substance, death itself dancing, the ultimate autonomized partial object., illustrating organ without a body,disintegration of fantasy,spectral remainder
In a George Balanchine ballet set to Anton Webern, after the music ends the dancers continue moving in silence for some time, like cartoon characters walking off a cliff. This is Žižek's figure for the death drive as distinct from Will., illustrating Todestrieb,e pur si muove,drive vs Will
Balanchine choreographed Webern's ultra-short pieces by having the dancers continue dancing after the music stops, the effect was of living dead, a pure compulsive drive without its life-substance., illustrating death drive,Lacanian Real,appearance deprived of substance