Rameau's Les Indes Galantes | modern interpretation by Acland Burghley students

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In September 2020, we entered into a partnership with Acland Burghley School (ABS), Camden, and have been working with the students on lots of exciting new projects.

In this video, a group of year 10 students can be seen performing an original dance that they choreographed for their GCSE exam, accompanied by the Orchestra performing Rameau’s ‘Danse des Sauvages’ from Les Indes Galantes. The collaboration is an important first step in demonstrating how working together can enrich an appreciation of the arts and reinforce the positives when joining forces creatively.

To make this a reciprocated creative experience, the students were given their own agency in carving out the framework of the project. Taking inspiration from baroque dances on YouTube, the ABS students were drawn to Rameau’s ‘Les Sauvages’. This particular dance, with a strong and distinctive rhythmic pulse, sparked enthusiastic discussion and allowed the music and choreography to evolve hand in hand.

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