Love List: Steve Reich by Nicolette Fraillon AM
This week, to celebrate American composer Steve Reich’s birthday, we asked The Australian Ballet’s Music Director and Chief Conductor Nicolette Fraillon AM to pick her favourite Reich works.
Reich is no stranger to the world of dance, his minimalist oeuvre being favoured by choreographers worldwide including Douglas Lee (New York City Ballet), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas) and enfant terrible Wayne McGregor’s infamous one-act ballet Dyad 1929 created especially for The Australian Ballet.
Toast to the master of canon and pulses with this special playlist in his honour, and lose yourself in the hypnotic pleasure of Reich.
“Insane and magical. Communities of musicians, working together: arriving to join the fray; departing to take us in new directions; exploring colours, textures, the power of many, the brilliance of the individual. Is music but also performance art. I love it.”