Nikolai Foregger and his Orchestra of Noises (or The Estudio MastFor) : Mechanical Dances

Ballet excerpt "Transmission chain dance" (1923)

L.C.I. and collaborators, remake of the dances
Juan Bernardo Pineda, choreography director
Leopoldo Amigo, remake of the Orchestra of Noises
Miguel Molina, remake of the Orchestra of Noises

Year of Recording : 2004

From the album "Baku : Symphony of Sirens" and the CD "Noises and Whispers in Avant Gardes".

The playwright and choreographer Nikolai Foregger founded in 1921 the Estudio MastFor (MASTerkaya FOReggera = Foregger Workshop) that emphasized a new system of dance and physical training (called TePhyTrenage), in which it conceived "the body of the dancer as a machine and the muscles of volition as the machinist". They performed dances that imitated a transmission chain or chain saw, accompanied – behind the scene- by a "Orchestra of Noises" that included broken glasses in boxes that were shaken, hitting different metal and wood objects, packing boxes, drums, gongs, whistles, cheap whistles and shouts by instrumentalists.

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