Spell is a ritual choreography of exhaustion and ambiguity. There is a power in repetition that is almost like a magic formula. The recurring repetition of the same gesture charges it with defiant power and turns it into a form of political resistance. Spell is an embodied incantation that resists the impotence of our daily resistance to [...].
The spatial sound action of PHØNIX16 explores sound and its migration, the sounds of this migration and the migration of these sounds. The programme contrasts the work of the Slovenian-French composer Vinko Globokar, Airs de voyages vers l'intérieur ("Songs of the journey to oneself"), in which Slovenian rhythms break through the idioms of the contemporary musical language and are combined in a ritual [...].
This first staged adaptation of the novel by Belarusian-born writer Sasha Filipenko tells the story of Peter Nesterenko, an officer in the anti-Bolshevik White Guard who, after a long period of emigration at the beginning of the 20th century, made a deal with the Soviet authorities and returned to his homeland. It is a story about forgiveness and the [...]
The French-Greek pianist Pavlos Antoniadis has been working for many years on the development of an interface that converts the slightest movement of a pianist into sound. His performance will focus on the result of this project, a large-scale work with video and artificial intelligence entitled 你們是蟲子 (You Are Bugs) - Homage to Liu Cixin, for [...]
Spell is a ritual choreography of exhaustion and ambiguity. There is a power in repetition that is almost like a magic formula. The recurring repetition of the same gesture charges it with defiant power and turns it into a form of political resistance. Spell is an embodied incantation that resists the impotence of our daily resistance to [...].
Everything is transient - the performance, the body, life, home. Looking back on himself from exile in Germany - as a dancer, as a son, as a person - choreographer Ivan Estegneev searches for an expression of letting go and holding on in the moment of performance. How do you say goodbye to a deceased father from afar? How [...]
Four actors distribute books on stage, referring to a scene from Parajanov's film *The Color of Pomegranates*, in which books lie on the roof of the Sanahin monastery to dry after a rainstorm. The actors lay out the books and talk about life, art, death, love, grief, [...].
Four actors distribute books on stage, referring to a scene from Parajanov's film *The Color of Pomegranates*, in which books lie on the roof of the Sanahin monastery to dry after a rainstorm. The actors lay out the books and talk about life, art, death, love, grief, [...].
Mozart's unfinished Requiem touches us with its stirring drama, its deep melancholy and its comforting soulfulness. Not least because of the partly mysterious story of its composition, which is linked to Mozart's own death, it is surrounded by an air of mystery and a transcendental aura. Together with the Chamber Choir Ireland, the Irish Chamber Orchestra under Thomas Zehetmair brings Mozart's [...]
In their project Róisín Reimagined, singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and the Irish Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Cormac McCarthy conjure up old musical traditions and bring them into the present day: Muireann's incomparable singing, which makes her one of the leading interpreters of Irish music, meets new orchestral arrangements of sean-nós songs. Sean-nós (Irish for "old style") refers to [...]
