FOOTNOTES (for CRIPPLED SYMMETRY)

FOOTNOTES (for CRIPPLED SYMMETRY)

AS NOTES BECOMES MOVEMENT 

In Footnotes (for Crippled Symmetry), the music score of ‘Crippled Symmetry’ by composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987, USA) is the starting point for a choreography for 3 female dancers, a sound system and a spacious artwork.

Morton Feldman is one of the most important composers of new music in the 20th century. His music offers a meeting place for Levi's fascination with symmetry, which she has explored in pieces such as The Dry Piece (2012/2016), and her focus on the exchange between choreography and music in all her works. Footnotes (for Crippled Symmetry) enables Levi to concentrate on the choreographic unfolding of the time-space relationship between movement and music-notes on the one hand, and issues such as commitment, communality and the experience of time on the other hand.

Footnotes (for Crippled Symmetry) is a hole in the tissue of time. The movement of the dancers - their performance of the score - is made possible because of the un-compromised commitment to the score, which is then becomes a vehicle for the dancers to form an onstage community. 
In addition to the aesthetic value of the performance, Footnotes (for Crippled Symmetry) is a manifestation of the experience of the passage of time. As our experience of time becomes more and more fragmented, our attention span becomes shorter and shorter. The enhanced fragmentation prevent us from a cohesive experience of our own live, consequently increasing alienation on personal and interpersonal levels.  

The choreography is made in a way that every dancer translates the composite route of one musical instrument into movement material. Traces of instrumentation and music are read back in each movement pattern, The three patterns form together, in juxtaposition to each other, a ghostly embodiment of the original score. Dutch visual artist Krijn de Koning and English composer Tom Parkinson, have been invited by Levi to respond, in their own discipline, to Feldman's score. De Koning will create a visual concept for the performance that breathe his work’s signature of architectural playfulness. Parkinson’s sound composition will encompass the performance with a sonic environment 

Footnotes (for Crippled Symmetry) is an evening performance that is also available as a double bill program. This program offers the implementation of Footnotes (for Crippled Symmetry), in combination with the performance of the music by the renowned chamber music ensemble, Ives Ensemble in the context of Krijn de Koning's spacious artwork.

 
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Credits

The choreography, inspired by the partiture of Crippled Symmetry, was crafted in close collaboration with the dancers, Alicia Verdú Macián, Rozemarijn de Neve and Carcom Sheffer. Visual artist Krijn de Koning informed the space with his sculpture/ obstacle. Original music by Tom Parkinson, after Morton Feldman. Igor Dobričić offered dramaturgical wisdom, Assi Weitz made magic with video, Martin Kaffarnik shade light on the situation and kept everyone calm, fashion designer Conny Groenewegen completed the witchcraft with her out of the ordinary costumes.

Production & tourmanagement Martha van Meegen | PR NeverLike Daisy Benz | Management & Strategy NeverLike Transistor -Jette Schneider & Judith Schoneveld | Graphic design Miritte Ben Yitzchak | Photography Eti Steinberg.  

Calendar

07/07/201907/07/19Why Not festivalAmsterdam, NL
06/07/201906/07/19Why Not festivalAmsterdam, NL
06/03/201906/03/19Rabotheater HengeloHengelo, NL
02/02/201902/02/19Forum Freies TheaterDüsseldorf, DE
01/02/201901/02/19Forum Freies TheaterDüsseldorf, DE
08/12/201808/12/18Theater aan het VrijthofMaastricht, NL
10/10/201810/10/18FrascatiAmsterdam, NL
09/10/201809/10/18FrascatiAmsterdam, NL
26/05/201826/05/18NWE VORSTTilburg, NL
19/05/201819/05/18Korzo theaterDen Haag, NL
05/05/201805/05/18MEERVART THEATREAMSTERDAM, NL
26/04/201826/04/18Rotterdamse SchouwburgRotterdam, NL
20/04/201820/04/18chassé theaterBreda, NL
12/04/201812/04/18Ins BlauLeiden, NL
29/03/201829/03/18LuxNijmegen, NL
16/03/201816/03/18NatlabEindhoven, NL
03/03/201803/03/18Theater KikkerUtrecht, NL
24/02/201824/02/18FrascatiAmsterdam, NL
23/02/201823/02/18FrascatiAmsterdam, NL
22/02/201822/02/18FrascatiAmsterdam, NL
10/02/201810/02/18PumpenhausMünster, DE
09/02/201809/02/18PumpenhausMünster, DE
09/11/201709/11/17MuziekgebouwAmsterdam, NL

Reviews

24/02/201824/02/18ENKELE VOETNOTEN BIJ VOETNOTEN
24/02/201824/02/18HET PAROOL