Le Grand Bal des Cousins
These improbable poets with their inimitable muses, magicians devoted to the facetiousness of Euterpe, incandescent tightrope walkers on the wind of the dance, goldsmiths of the passing time, trampling on the dusty clock of unreasoning fears, embracing each other, reconciled by the disappeared shadows, amazed by the ineluctable trajectory of unfulfilled legs, swept by the indistinct and burning breath of songs, words, notes and rhythms… present the Grand Bal des Cousins, never scholastic, popular in the
a powerful antidote to the torments of our never-so-quiet consciences.
Le Grand Bal des Cousins
In June 2009, following a joint commission from the city of Valence and the department of the Drôme, Etienne Roche put together the first version of what was to become the Grand Bal des Cousins, with an eclectic repertoire of some thirty pieces to dance to, sprinkled with original compositions, musette standards and revisited choruses, […]
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