Forlane In the footsteps of Jean-Marie Leclair: dancing master and violinist in France in the 18th century
Responsable(s)
Florence Malgoire
Équipe
Partenaires
Constance Frei, UNIL
Robin Jousson luthier
Jérôme Lejeune, Ricercar label
Date de début: 2021
Présentation du projet
The violinists of the 18th century were performers and composers, and learned the role and the profession of dance master. With their ‘pochette’, a small violin that they could fit into their pocket, to show the dance steps, they perpetuated the oral tradition from the 16th century right up until the start of the 20th century.
Jean-Marie Leclair, a violin virtuoso who founded the French violin school in the 18th century, was also a master of making of soft furnishings, a dance master, a professional dancer and choreographer, and a composer.
This project aims to experiment for two years - examining the theory, the sources and the practice of the role of Maître à danser (Dance Master violinist) - with the oeuvre of Jean-Marie Leclair, whose compositions are imbued with the dances of the past, magnified by his talent as a composer.
Dance internships with Béatrice Massin, lectures, a workshop on building bows for dance for the students given by the bow-maker Jean-Yves Tanguy, the manufacturing of two ‘pochettes’ by the violin-maker Robin Jousson, research work led by Constance Frei in partnership with the CMBV and the University of Lausanne, the recording of all of Jean-Marie Leclair’s duets for two violins by the label Ricercar in the ‘disciples master’ tradition will be topped off with a final concert featuring a ‘violin band’ made up of students from the HEM and a ‘Dance master’ dancer.
