The Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière chapel is magnificent.
Can there be a more inspired place for shows?
Light and stone play with each other.
Gaps.
Passages.
Openings.
Elevation.
Under the dome of the choir, the sun redraws stained glass windows of pure light through transparency.
Below, Bob Wilson posed an octagonal scene, a lake of smooth wood.
The case is ideal for hearing Bach's six solos for violin, music which also runs horizontally and constantly in stages, to better reach the vertical.
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Jennifer Koh is alone in the center.
She has performed with the greatest orchestras in the world.
His face during the game inspired Bob Wilson to this
Bach 6 Solo
piece
.
He asked his old accomplice Lucinda Childs to choreograph the performance.
Their two names side by side and that of Philip Glass threw
Einstein on the Beach.
They are synonymous with new, hypnotic images, which push the vertigo of sensations a little further.
Seeing them together is an event.
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