photo credit @ICKHEO Master craftsmanship on stage? It sounds strange and fascinating at the same time: While a ceramist and a knot artist perform their work on stage, in the background [...]
The theatre of Imagination moves the performance into the minds of the audience: the description of the events is projected onto a screen. The imagined stage action - famous, real productions [...]
Tatiana Chizhikova uses solid and condensed choreographic forms for her works, while their emotional content is rather complex and highly charged. In her new solo performance she works with a simple found object, a stick. With it she unfolds a detailed movement research on the theme of rootedness, grounding or staggering and displacement. Tatiana Chizhikova: "I have a dry stick [...].
A broad spectrum of musical deconstructions of classical formal models is heard in this duo recital: Stravinsky's Divertissement (1934) is based on the music for his ballet Le Baiser de la fée, which in turn was inspired by Tchaikovsky's great ballet music. Kharkiv-born, Israel-based composer Leonid Desyatnikov dissects the last song in Like the Old Lyreman... (1997) [...].
A two-part project that brings together artistic works that have one thing in common: a 'twist' or turning point, after which - just like in real life - nothing is the same anymore. [...]
This is a performance with two dance pieces that wander in a non-staged environment. The two choreographers and dancers, Tatyana Chizhikova and Yulia Arsen, detach their creations from their original stage versions, relying on solid choreographic structure, resonant imagery and emotional density to create a shared experience for the viewer. Together they create [...]
Huge shadows lie over the many scenes of New Music in the territory of the former Soviet Union, which is once again the scene of violent geopolitical conflicts. The lively exchange of authoritative composers and interpreters [...]
Boris Filanovsky's "Ob aus Luft" is a musical meditation on loss inspired by the acclaimed poetry cycle by Maria Stepanova. With a perfect blend of silence and fervor, static and expression, [...]
There is no correct or incorrect way to remember. But we are constantly being disciplined into particular ways of recollecting: by memory politics, media discourse, our families, our surroundings, our [...]
The dialectic of freedom and oppression runs as a guiding theme through the diverse artistic programme of this concert by the Neue Vocalsolisten. Works will be performed that were especially composed for the Neue Vocalsolisten [...]
