THE WINDS OF SHIVA ARE THE DANCE OF HIS COSMIC HAIR
LORD SHIVA-NATARAJ the Cosmic Dancer
OLIVIER PATEY - First Dancer "National Opera of Paris Ballet".
(Photo above) : the "orientations" of the arms and legs indicate the lines of strenght of the Cube of Space and its 28 energy trails
RINA SCHENFELD performing her dans solo "Threads". Music Igor Wakhevitch (album Let's Start") EMI records
In front of “ALPHA URSA MINOR” Igor’s house in South India
"THREADS" Dance solo and choreography : Rina Schenfeld. Music : Igor Wakhevitch (Festival of Israel, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa ) Paris, Theatre de la Ville. Recorded in Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Paris. The music of "Threads" appearsi in Igor Wakhevitch album "Let's Start", released by EMI
COSMIC STRINGS = HUMAN BEING
FOUR DIFFERENTIATIONS, ASPECT AND STAGES OF "THE LINE": 1 - PURE ENERGY : RADIATION ; 2 - BRIGHTNESS : RADIANCE ; 3 - FORMING : INFLUENCE ; 4 - FULFILMENT : MATERIAL PLAN / BODY / ACTION - REALIZATION
EVERYTHING IS ISSUED BY "THERE IS NOTHING" אין AIN)
THE "SELF-RESTRICTION" - Tsimtsum - or "CONTRACTION" OF THE INFINITE IS GIVING BIRTH TO AN EMPTINESS WITHOUT LIMITS
EXISTENCE AND REALITY ARE NOTHING ELSE THAN A PRIMORDIAL "THERE IS NOTHING", AN IMPENETRABLE MYSTERY ....
... WHICH IS A POINT SURROUNDED BY AN ENDLESS LIGHT DARKER THAN THE NIGHT : "THERE IS NOTHING, LIGHT- WITHOUT LIMITS"
“THREADS” a two hours solo danced by Rina Schenfeld - Choreography by RINA SHCENFELD (Festival of Israel - Theatre de la Ville - Paris) Music: Igor Wakhevitch
Photo above : Jean-Marc Torrès en tournée avec Maurcie Béjart danse “Le Sacre du Printemps”.
A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS - IGOR WAKHEVITCH & CAROLYN CARLSON
a long journey from Paris Opera to Shiraz-Persepolios Festival (Iran), passing through the Theatre de la Ville (Paris) - Teatro de la Fenice-Malibran (Venice). “Les Fous d’or” (The Golden Fools) - “This-That and the Other, “the Beginning”, “the End”, “Human Called Being”, "l’Orso e la Luna”
First scene of "This" : who ? why ? how ? where ? what ? ... Choreography by Carolyn Carlson. Music played and composed by Igor Wakhevitch.
Carolyn Carlson on stage performing at the National Opera of Paris (Palais Garnier) on Igor Wakhevitch's music.
Photo (below) : Paris Opera program: dediacted words to Igor from Peter Morin and Caroline Marcadet.
On Igor Wakhevitch’a music,, Carolyn Carlson and Larrio Eckson dancing on the immense stage of the "National Opera of Paris" (Palais Garnier) : "THIS-THAT-THE OTHER"
(Above) One of the many letters and drawings, poems from Carolyn Carlson to Igor.
Maurice Béjart and Carolyn Carlson in great conversation backstage at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris just after the grand-premiere of the dance program "Les Fous d'Or" on the music of Igor Wakhevitch
Photo above: letter from MAURICE BEJART to IGOR WAKHEVITCH sent from Montreal (Canada-Quebec) where Bejart was touring with the XXth Century Ballet
Carolyn Carlson performing "Les Fous d'Or" on stage at the Theatre de la Ville, Paris. Carolyn is "the crazy lady" .... (a witch ?)
Maurice Béjart, Igor Wakhevitch, Carolyn Carlson. Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. Backstage after the grand-première of *Les Fous d'Or"
IORMA UOTINEN is an eminent figure of the Carolyn Carlson Dance Company at the National Opera of Paris.
Carolyn Carlson and Igor Wakhevitch having fun together during a working cession in the studio at the National Opera of Paris - 2 -
In the middle: Carolyn Carlson’s framework of a scenography that Igor’s has to put in music.
Carolyn Carlson notes for “L’Orso e la Luna” Teatre Malibra-La Fenice Venice. Music Igor Wakhevitch
NAQSH-E-RUSTAM (Perepolis, IRAN) Performing site of "Human Called Being", music Igor Wakhevitch, choregraphy Carolyn Carlson with the Carolyn Carlson Dance-Theatre Group of Researches of the National Opera of Paris. Carved in the rock at a considerable height above the ground, four tombs belonging to the Achaemenid Kings, Darius I, Xerxes, Artaxerxes II and Darius II. World creation of "Human Called Beings" in the effective presence of Her Majesty Farah Palhavi, Empress of Iran. The stage was erected just at the foot of the cliff. Igor's music played in this very sacred place for Iran history and people was like a powerful memory of a past life when the Jewish people was in exile in the Persian Empire: the majesty of Igor's music and its mystery, magic power in harmony with the nature of the desert and the royal tombs was like an invocation of jewish eternal soul above time and space.
THE LITTLE MAGICIAN TRAVELLING ACROSS EXISTENCE (Peter Morin on stage performing "Human Called Being" - International Shiraz-Persepéolis Festival - Iran) Choréographie Carolyn Carlson, Music Igor Wakhevitch ("Nagual" the Wings of the Perception, EMI)
Right after the performance, Her Royal Majesty Farah Palhavi Empress of Iran having a chat with Carolyn Carlson and Igor Wakhevitch
IORMA UOTINEN performing "Human called Being" Naqsh-e-Rostam, International Festival of Persepolis-Iran. Music Igor Wakhevitch, choreography Carolyn Carlson
Igor Wakhevitch in conversation with Her Royal Majesty Farah Palhavi, Empress of Iran, just after the world premiere of "Human Called Being" (Naqsh-e-Rostam performing site, Shiraz-Persepolis Festival, Iran
Below : Iorma Uotinen and Dominique Petit inscriptions to Igor inside the National Opera of Paris programme released to introduce "The Other"
(Below) Carolyn Carlson's sketch of the entire pentalogy "Human Called Being" : "The Beginning - This - That - the Other - the End". A five hours performance at the National Opera of Paris. World Creation of "Human Called Being" (renamed "the End" at Paris Opera) in the effective presence of Her Royal Majesty Farah Palhavi, Empress of Iran ) Music by Igor Wakhevitch. (photo below: Naqsh-e-Rostam performing site, Shiraz-Persepolis Festival, Iran .
Photo below: NAQSH-E-RUSTAM (Perepolis, IRAN) Performing site of "Human Called Being", music Igor Wakhevitch, choregraphy Carolyn Carlson. Igor's music played in front of the Persian Kings's grave. (Third one from the left, the grave of King Assuerus, Xerxes I who ordered the first genocide in history of the Jewish people (Meguila Esther) The miracle of Purim.
NAQSH-E-RUSTAM - Iran: just after the performence (World Creation, 17. 08. 1978) Igor Wakhevitch presenting the album "NAGUAL" as a gift to Her Majesty Farah Palhavi, Empress of Iran (Music of "Human Called Being "on the album "Nagual" released by EMI)
AFFICHE DE L’OPERA NATIONAL DE PARIS (PALAIS GARNIER) Création mondiale de “AOR” IGOR WAKHEVITCH-JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
Photo ci-dessous : Jean-Marc Torrès dans le Sacre du Printemps de Maurice Béjart. Igor et Jean-Marc, deux amis de cœur pour toujours.
Photo (below) : YURA KNIAZEFF Youra Kniazeff
Yura Kniazeff at 17 years old : Igor's best friend since childhood, sharing the same schools, including the "Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance" where both Igor and Yura were students. Talented classical dancer, Yura integrated the "National Opera of Paris Ballet" and later on joined the Pierre Lacotte Dance Company. Yura's mother was Nina Vyrubova, the famous "Prima Ballerina-Danseuse Etoile" from the Marquis de Cuevas Dance Company and at the "National Opera of Paris Ballet" where she was the main partner of Serge Lifar. Its Yura who introduced igor in the world of classical dance.
Photo above: YURA KNIAZEFF: igor’s boy friend. Dance at the Ballet Opera of Paris/ Ballet of Canada - Pierre Lacotte Company
SYLVIO GUALDA PERCUSSION SOLOIST OF THE NATIONAL OPERA OF PARIS ORCHESTRA. Here playing the score of “AOR”, music by Igor Wakhevitch. World creation at the National Opera of Paris. Electronic music by Jean-Michel Jarre. A concerto for Orchestra and electroacoustic tape by Igor Wakhevitch and Jean-Michel Jarre. Choreography Norbert Schmucki.
DOMINIQUE BAGOUET the famous french young choreographer was one of Igor’s closest friend. Dominique was a solo dancer in the Maurice Bejart company the “XXth Century Ballet”, working also with Felix Blaska, Peter Goss, Carolyn Carlson.
Photos below: MAURICE BEJART 's first letter to Igor. The mantra "OM NAMO BHAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA" written by Maurice Béjart. The beginning of a long friendship.
End of Maurice Béjart 's letter to Igor after the released of his first album "LOGOS" (EMI).
RINA SCHENFELD on stage in Jerusalem, performing "Threads". Igor Wakhevitch's music enables the spirit of dance descent to take possession ofthe dancer's soul and sustain all the choreagraphy. Body movements and emotions: music and dance are one.
Above : inner page of Festival of Israel programm
Below : inner page of Festival of Israel programme, "Threads" choreography Rina Schenfeld, music Igor Wakhevitch
"Room" (H'eder) חדר (number value 212) ; the "chambers" - Chederim" - is an important teaching of the Kabalah of Israel: the "inner chambers" of the being. They are also special places where to rest after death ... but also class-rooms where the soul can study and evaluate her passage and experiences on the material plan. (According the state of counsciousness at the moment of the last breath)
Igor's electric organ (Tel-Aviv, recording "Threads" : Igor's music for Rina Schenfeld and the Festival of Israel). Album "Let's Start" (EMI)
Photo above: EMI studio in Boulogne (Paris) Igor with MOOG synthesizer, recording and mixing the album "Let's Start".
Below : Larrio Eckson, Caroline Marcadet, Iorma Uotinen, on stage at the National Opera of Paris (Palais Garnier) "The Other" Choreography Carolyn Carlson, Music Igor Wakhevitch
Below : Venice, Teatro La Fenice programme: "L'Orso e la Luna" Choreography Carolyn Carlson, Music Igor Wakhevitch
Igor at work in recording studio (Centre George Pompidou - Paris
DOMINIQUE BAGOUET
CAROLINE MARCADET AND PETER MORIN ON STAGE (Theatre des Bouffes du Nord - Paris) Both were proeminent figure of the Carolyn Carlson Dance Company and at the National Opera of Paris, dancing on Igor’s music (This -That - the Other - the Beginning - the End) and “Les Fous d’Or” (Theatre de la Ville - Paris) “Human Called Being” world creation at the Shiraz-Persepolis International Festival in Iran. Igor and Peter collaborated many times together: “…. Of Remembrance” (Theatre des Bouffes du Nord) - “Amaravati - the city of Indra” at the Sri Aurobindo Auditorium in South India
OLIVIER PATEY Premier Danseur - Ballet du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris
OLIVIER PATEY’S PORTRAIT AT THE AGE OF 17 YEARS OLD BY THE RUSSIAN PAINTER SERGE IVANOFF (Oil painting)
DANCE WITH OLIVIER
A new chapter of Igor’s musical works was drawn and accompanied by their mutual strong friendship : Olivier (National Opera of Paris Dance School and Ballet, First Dancer) at the side of Igor: Igor Wakhevitch’s involvement and contribution as a composer to introduce modern music at the National Opera of Paris: five years of preparation to study the language and technics of classical dance, followed by ten years of intensive work with the “corps de ballet” and all the dancers of the National Opera of Paris Ballet.
Olivier during a rehersal of the Ballet at the National Opera of Paris (Palais Garnier)
Olivier Patey, First Dancer of the National Paris Opera Ballet: his vast repertoire of the most prestigious roles of the classical ballets and modern as well made him one of the greatest ballet master today and his reputation extends to Japan via Russia where he teaches and stages the great ballets of the repertory. His knowledge of the roles and the choreographies is incomparable and had the most prestigious partners at the Paris Opera, among the most famous “danseus étoiles”. He was dancing under the direction of Jerome Robbinns, George Balanchine, Pierre Lacotte, Roland Petit, Vladimir Gregorovitch, Violette Verdy, Rudolph Nureev, Maurice Béjart, and many others ….
“RITUAL DANCE”, painting by Olivier Legris (Olivier Patey’s private collection)
OLIVIER PATEY, First Dancer of the National Opera of Paris Ballet. On stage Palais Garnier in "Don Quichotte"
Photos below: "The Girl of Sixteen" : Music Igor Wakhevitch. Choreography by Olivier Patey. Program - Tata Theatre Mumbai India
"Swan Lake" National Opera of Paris Ballet (Palais Garnier)
Photo (below) : Olivier Patey and Igor Wakhevitch with Rudolph Nureev (dancing the “Petrushka” of Igor Stravinsky)
THE COSMIC DANCER, THE LORD OF DANCE, SHIVA-NATARAJ
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