La Fiesta (photo gallery) - Annotation
This post discusses an image document:
"LA FIESTA." LA FIESTA - Festival d'Avignon. Festival D'Avignon , n.d. Web. 25 July 2017.
This source is a digital photo gallery incorporating images and videos from Israel Galván’s, La Fiesta at the 2017 Festival D’Avignon. Christophe Raynaud de Lage is the performance photographer of this photo gallery and he has also been the performance photographer for many productions at the Festival D’Avignon. Moreover, Raynaud de Lage displays an extensive portfolio on his main website. He is clearly a skilled photographer, and his skill can be seen through this photo gallery. Raynaud de Lage captures many pivotal moments of La Fiesta, through images depicting the performers midair leaping onto tables, as well as images of the striking lighting looks that accentuate the minimalistic set and props used mainly as platforms for the dancers and also as a medium through which the pieces of the unconventional soundscape were created.
All the photos as a collective capture a great amount of the shows essence of celebration that Galván mentions within his interview in the production leaflet, in the sense that they depict the movable tables used as set and percussion, and the images display the performers singing, sitting, mid-dance or standing poised to dance in a performative manner. Furthermore, the images also show the objects scattered on the floor after the performers danced on tabletop to create what I can only explain as a sound avalanche. This photo gallery is useful for my research into the sound design because it visually incorporates the interesting sound elements used in La Fiesta, which included the use of bodies, a mixture of common and strange instruments, and objects.
However, a limitation of this source is that this particular photo gallery does not include pictures of all the individual instruments used in the performance. It would have been interesting, at least for my research, to get a closer look at all the musical items because the performance definitely contained a myriad of them, each getting used for short bursts of time to accompany the fiery flamenco dance segments.
