Sep 11, 2014
Danse improvisée avec piano préparé
A prepared piano is a piano whose sound is altered by all sorts of objects placed between its strings : screws, pieces of plastic or an eraser. With his “Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano”, the American composer John Cage brought this reinvented instrument to extraordinary heights. In...
Feb 6, 2014
All Instruments - a creation by Sarah Ludi & Co
ALL INSTRUMENTS brings together a dancer, two musicians and a visual artist. The four performers wanted to be equal in influence from the creation process to the stage. Dance, trumpet, drums and lights are all the instruments of a partly improvised writing, triggered by impulses and influences...
Sep 24, 2013
Notturnino
Based in London, Candoco Dance Company is the world\\\'s most renowned contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers. In February 2014 a new piece choreographed by Thomas Hauert will be added to its repertory.
Feb 5, 2013
MONO
MONO, to be premiered in November 2013, is a dance piece with eight dancers and one viola player on stage. Weaving individualized choreographic material, collective structures and supra-collective movement forces, it aims to delve the spectator in a kaleidoscope of apparently independent events...
Nov 30, 2012
Danse étoffée sur musique déguisée
\"Danse étoffée sur musique déguisée\", ZOO’s first piece for a young audience (5+), is a solo dance performance by Mat Voorter on John Cages’s \"Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano\" played live by Daan Vandewalle. A prepared piano is a piano altered by all sorts of objects placed...
May 15, 2012
Pond Skaters
POND SKATERS is a work created by Thomas Hauert in 2013 with Toronto Dance Theatre and ZOO in the frame of the “Brussels/Toronto Project”. It was nominated in the category “outstanding choreography” at the Dora Awards 2013 presented by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts....
Dec 8, 2011
From B to B
"From B to B " is a path that brings
Thomas Hauert to Àngels Margarit by way of numerous detours, a story that crosses over
geographic, temporal, and semantic universes as varied as they are
surprising. From B to B is a
game, as much for the creators/performers as for...
Nov 25, 2011
Like me more like me
"Like me more like me " is a transatlantic oeuvre created in collaboration with American dance and performance artist, Scott Heron. Scott and Thomas met in New York in 2008 during the Movement Research Festival curated by Jennifer Monson. Dancing together and watching each...
Jan 31, 2011
Accords
In Accords , Thomas Hauert continues his research on body and movement, focusing more specifically on the relationship between dance and music. Dance and music are parts of a classic combination, perhaps even the
very first one. Anyone watching Accords might think that they are
seeing a...
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