RAVE-L PARTY
Classical & electronic music, movement and video
Programmed at: Holland Festival, Fiminco Foundation, Théâtre du Châtelet, Ruhrtriennale Festival, DeSingel Antwerp, Seine Musicale, Classicime Festival, Nuit Blanche at Kremlin Bicêtre, France Music Week, Théâtre de Caen
From an intimate and hypnotic Ravel to a collective trance
Les Apaches affirm their desire to surprise and amaze audiences through musical and interdisciplinary creation in all its forms. To celebrate Maurice Ravel's birthday, Les Apaches are organizing a Rave-L Party, which gradually transforms the concert hall into a vast industrial complex and then into an electro club.
A tribute to the factory that inspired Boléro, first marked by the rhythmic cadence and restrained bodies of assembly line work, then silenced by machines, it is reborn to the electronic beats of a new generation liberated by music. We are invited to join their collective celebration.
Far from the black and white clichés depicting a classically dressed Ravel in a suit, it is the wild, innovative, and eternally youthful Ravel we will celebrate. The one who respected no limits, exploring every style to create new music, and who continues to inspire all musical spheres today.
From the rediscovery of a 1929 jazz Bolero to the creation of an electro Bolero, via a Suite-Remix of the dances of the Child and the spells, today's Apaches dare EVERYTHING.
Musicians, conductors, DJs, composers, VJs, dancers will reveal to the public the mindset of the most audacious composer of the 20th century, whose watchword is freedom!
"Ravel, who would have celebrated his 150th birthday this year, is thus getting the celebration he would undoubtedly have dreamed of" - Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Ruhrtriennale Festival)
"The Apaches push back the boundaries of classical music, with the cunning of a Sioux..." - Victoria Okada (Transfuge)
"It is both powerful and refined" - Olivier Py (Théâtre du Châtelet)
PROGRAM
Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – I. Opening (2025)
Ravel, Jazz Bolero (1929) (Arrangement by Bruno Gousset after Roger Branga and Louis Salvadò)
Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – II. Alborada del Delirio (2025)
Ravel , Vocalise-Étude en forme de Habanera (1906) (Transcription for bugle and piano by Renaud Escriva)
Ravel, Mirrors, Alborada del Gracioso (1906)
(Orchestration for ensemble commissioned from Anthony Girard)
Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – III. Enchanted Waltzes & Xtasy Fox-Trot (2025)
Ravel - Pascal Zavaro, Ravel Dances - Suite for large ensemble, after L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1919-1925)
(Arrangement for ensemble commissioned from Pascal Zavaro)
Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – IV. Drum and Bells (2025)
Ravel, Blues, from the Violin Sonata (1922-1927)
(Transcription for violin and ensemble by Eva Zavaro)
Ravel, Miroirs, Vallée des cloches (1906) (Orchestration for ensemble commissioned from Anthony Girard)
Fabien Cali feat. Tatyana Jane, Un.ravel.ing – V. Final: Bolero Trip! (2025)
DISTRIBUTION
The Apaches! (20 musicians)
Julien Masmondet, director
Maurice Ravel, Fabien Cali , music
Tatyana Jane , live electro
Gordon & Sarah Silverblatt-Buser , stage direction
Alexandra R , real-time visual artist
Arthur Cemin , lighting design
Thibaut Lescure , sound engineer
Renaud Escriva, Anthony Girard, Bruno Gousset, Eva Zavaro, Pascal Zavaro , arrangements/orchestrations
Eva Zavaro , violin
Arthur Escriva , bugle
Sarah Silverblatt-Buser and Les Apaches , dancers
