Tchaikovsky: Embodied Listening

Pre-concert lecture-demonstration with My'Kal Stromile You may think you know Tchaikovsky. This pre-concert session invites you to listen again, with your body.  Movement architect, choreographer, and former Boston Ballet dancer, My'Kal Stromile has created works for the Paris Opera Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ailey II, and the Vail Dance Festival. He leads a hands-on exploration of how Tchaikovsky's music is built. Simple gestures bring rhythm, syncopation, tempo, and the silence between notes into focus. What might we discover by moving slowly through an allegro, or dynamically through an adagio? What changes when a famous melody arrives in fragments before it arrives whole? Stromile took up questions like these in Law's Logos , his work drawn from Act III of Swan Lake . Here he pairs them with a thread of Balanchine, who heard dance in Tchaikovsky's music even where it was never written for the stage. This is a listening session, not a dance class. No experience with dance, music theory, or Tchaikovsky is needed. Come curious, and take what you notice into the hall.