Rite of Spring—Rite of Disimagination: An Inquiry into the Pulsatile Imaginary of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre
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Rite of Spring—Rite of Disimagination : An Inquiry into the Pulsatile Imaginary of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre. / Isar, Nicoletta.
Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary : Rites of Disimagination. ed. / Nicoletta Isar. Springer Nature Switzerland AG : Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2024. p. 177-199.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Rite of Spring—Rite of Disimagination
T2 - An Inquiry into the Pulsatile Imaginary of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre
AU - Isar, Nicoletta
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Despite the abundant research on Igor Stravinsky’s musical score for the 1913 ballet Le Sacre, there is no specific examination of its exorbitant imaginary, which sprung straight from the tragic pathei mathos of Aeschylus straight into Modernity. (A short version of this chapter first appeared as “Pathei mathos and skandalon in Le Sacre du Printemps” in Special issue: Legacies of medieval dance (Palgrave Springer Nature, August 2023). I am grateful to Palgrave Springer for allowing me to reiterate some ideas developed in that article.) I argue that the pulsatile imaginary of Le Sacre takes us to such a ‘knowledge by ordeal’ to unveil the crucible in art, anticipated in Stravinsky’s own dream of the solemn pagan rite, and revealed in the radicality of its music and choreography. To understand the radicality of this artistic process, we need to understand the image from its process of disimagination as a ritualized process of transformation of image that corresponds to the imaginary of pulsion and pathos. We need to ‘penetrate’ the mechanism of the ‘crucible’ set in motion by Nijinsky’s revolutionary choreography and Stravinsky’s music, exemplarily reflected in the Dance of the Chosen One, and the final Augurs pulsating chord.
AB - Despite the abundant research on Igor Stravinsky’s musical score for the 1913 ballet Le Sacre, there is no specific examination of its exorbitant imaginary, which sprung straight from the tragic pathei mathos of Aeschylus straight into Modernity. (A short version of this chapter first appeared as “Pathei mathos and skandalon in Le Sacre du Printemps” in Special issue: Legacies of medieval dance (Palgrave Springer Nature, August 2023). I am grateful to Palgrave Springer for allowing me to reiterate some ideas developed in that article.) I argue that the pulsatile imaginary of Le Sacre takes us to such a ‘knowledge by ordeal’ to unveil the crucible in art, anticipated in Stravinsky’s own dream of the solemn pagan rite, and revealed in the radicality of its music and choreography. To understand the radicality of this artistic process, we need to understand the image from its process of disimagination as a ritualized process of transformation of image that corresponds to the imaginary of pulsion and pathos. We need to ‘penetrate’ the mechanism of the ‘crucible’ set in motion by Nijinsky’s revolutionary choreography and Stravinsky’s music, exemplarily reflected in the Dance of the Chosen One, and the final Augurs pulsating chord.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Rite of Spring
KW - Igor Stravinsy
KW - Disimagination
KW - Entbildung
KW - Pathei mathos
KW - Skandalon
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-49945-6_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-49945-6_9
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783031499449
SP - 177
EP - 199
BT - Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary
A2 - Isar, Nicoletta
PB - Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
CY - Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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