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SHOW

March 23, 2025 • Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
March 29, 2025 • Diapason Festival Megève, Le Palais Megève
June 7, 2025 • White Night, Kremlin-Bicêtre (free)
August 22–24, 2025 • Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts, Germany
June 13, 2026 • La Seine Musicale, Paris
June 27, 2026 • Holland Festival, Amsterdam

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An experience beyond the concert

The show is followed by a live electro performance by Tatyana Jane.

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Duration

2 hours

"Music can undertake anything, dare anything, and paint anything, provided that it charms and ultimately remains, always, music."

Maurice Ravel, "Autobiographical Sketch", La Revue musicale, December 1938

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!

PROGRAM

Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – I. Overture (2025)

Ravel, Boléro Jazz (1929) 

(Arrangement by Bruno Gousset based on 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 flugelhorn and piano by Renaud Escriva)

Ravel, Miroirs, Alborada del Gracioso (1906)

(Orchestration for ensemble commissioned from Anthony Girard)
Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – III. Bewitched Waltzes & Fox-Trot Xtasy (2025)

Ravel, Ravel Dances – Suite for large ensemble, based on L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1919–1925)

(Arrangement for ensemble commissioned from Pascal Zavaro)
Fabien Cali, Un.ravel.ing – IV. Drum & Bells (2025)

Ravel, Blues, excerpt 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: Boléro Trip! (2025)

DISTRIBUTION

Les Apaches!
Julien Masmondet, conductor

Maurice Ravel, Fabien Cali, music

Renaud Escriva, Anthony Girard, Bruno Gousset, Eva Zavaro, Pascal Zavaro, arrangements/orchestrations 

20 solo musicians
Eva Zavaro, violin
Arthur Escriva, flugelhorn

Sarah Silverblatt-Buser and Les Apaches, dancers

Fabien Cali, composer

Tatyana Jane, live electro


Gordon & Sarah Silverblatt-Buser, stage direction

Alexandra R, real-time visual artist

Arthur Cemin, lighting design
Thibaut Lescure, sound engineering

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