22 May 2015 - 15.00
HetVeem Theater, Van Diemenstraat 408-410, 1013 CR
Amsterdam
In the frame of the COMPOSERS FESTIVAL of the CONSERVATORIUM AMSTERDAM
Free entrance!
The heart of this project lies in the collaboration between Burkhard Körner
who is graduating in Choreography at the School for New Dance
Development (SNDO) and Duri Collenberg who is graduating in Composition at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (CvA).
Together they explored a dense score of movement and sound. Departing from Burkhard’s fascination for Japan and its cultures, rules, and patterns of behaviour, and Duri inspired by his reading of
Kafka novels, they research in this piece what it means to be one amongst many, to be an individual in a collectively organized society, to be participating in and likewise facilitating a given
and yet hardly visible structure.
In that vein, dancer-, piano- and pianist-bodies submit to a score of movement and sound that in the same time seems to evolve precisely through their presence and facilitation.
When does the music actually start? Do the pianos without pianists produce a sound-score? Are the steps of the performers, the sound of opening the doors, the breathing and coughing of the
audience included in the makeup of the acoustic space?
Next to finding a relation between sound and movement (and moving through sound) the piece also draws attention to the hierarchies of the senses in provoking us to ask whether we hear what we see
or see what we hear.
Lisa Skwirblies
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Concept: Duri Collenberg & Burkhard Körner
Composition: Duri Collenberg
Choreography: Burkhard Körner
Performance & co-creation: Antonia Steffens, Andreas Chanis, Burkhard Körner
Piano: Tijmen van Tol, Duri Collenberg
Advice: Lisa Skwirblies
Mentor: Katerina Bakatsaki