B/olero
assistants of choreography: Yiar Elezra, Bobbi Smith, Adi Salant
music: Maurice Ravel – Bolero
Performed by pioneering Japanese composer and synthesizer expert Isao Tomita
lights: Ohad Naharin
costumes: Alla Eizenberg
original cast: Nataša Novotná, Rei Watanabe
premiere: 7/ 2008
length: 9
“I saw a synthesizer on the record jacket, behind Bach. For the first time, I discovered that the synthesizer is not an instrument to compose music by using the sounds of existing instruments, but a new instrument or new machine which creates unlimited sound sources.”
Isao Tomita, 1977
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