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Holding Present

Ula Sickle & Ictus

Wereldpremière
dance
intimate
Sun 04 Jun 2023 -17.00
Last tickets
Concertzaal Scène
introduction by De Zendelingen 16.15
start 17.00
expected end time 18.45

Standard €25.00

Reduction -26 a. €13.00

All prices include booking fees.

How individuals become a group through music and movement

When bodies breathe together, move together, march or protest together, a poetic or even erotic force can arise that leads to collective action. In Holding Present Sickle wants to reveal that experience. Through a weave of new and existing compositions, a group of eight performers, musicians and dancers slowly and consciously build up towards the moment when individuals become a critical mass. Via the use of existing and specially designed new instruments, the finale culminates in a moment of pure togetherness.

Holding Present is a new collaboration between choreographer Ula Sickle and the contemporary music ensemble Ictus. The performance examines how an individual gesture can become a powerful collective act. Weaving a fabric of existing and newly commissioned compositions by Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Stellan Veloce and Didem Coskunseven, a group of eight performers slowly and consciously build a moment, a momentum, moving toward the breaking point where individuals become a critical mass. The performance stages unusual instruments such as a swinging bull roar, aluminum tubes, handheld rocks and megaphones, as well as a modular synthesizer. The dancers and musicians collaborate to realize both the musical and choreographic score, engaging with each other on new terrain, charting lines of flight in the present. And while they build over the duration of the piece, the audience integrates into the fabric. They too become part of the moment, becoming responsible for momentum. Holding Present is a powerful rehearsal for building the foundations of collectivity.

Strobe light is used during the performance.

This performance was originally scheduled at 7 pm. On 04 June 2023 at 8 pm, the dance performance Nomadics by Voetvolk is scheduled at the Koninklijke Stadsschouwburg Brugge. To allow a visit to both performances, we are adjusting our Deep Listening Day schedule. The dance performance Holding Present will therefore start at 5 pm instead of 7 pm. Previously purchased tickets for this performance remain valid.

credits

Ula Sickle: concept & choreography
Tom Pauwels (Ictus): concept & musical direction
Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Stellan Veloce, Didem Coskunseven (commissioned by Ictus & Ircam-Centre Pompidou): compositions
Augustin Muller: electronics IRCAM
Amanda Barrio Charmelo, Marina Delicado, Marie Goudot, Ruben Martinez Orio, Mohamed Toukabri, Tom Pauwels, Michael Schmid & Ula Sickle: creation & performance
Gert Aertsen: instruments design
Ofer Smilansky: lighting design & sound
Richard Venlet: scenography
Sabrina Seifried & Joëlle Laederach: costumes

production: Ictus & Outline

Co-commissioned work by Didem Coskunseven: Ircam-Centre Pompidou & Ictus
Co-production: Ircam/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Concertgebouw Brugge, KWP (in Pianofabriek), Perpodium
With the support of Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
With acknowledgements for the support from the Canada Council for the Arts

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With music by Alvin Lucier (1931-2021), Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016), Aart Strootman (1987), Stellan Veloce & Didem Coskunseven (1985)

Ula Sickle: concept & choreography
Tom Pauwels (Ictus): concept & musical direction
Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliv

Sun 04 Jun 2023 -17.00
Last tickets
Concertzaal Scène
introduction by De Zendelingen 16.15
start 17.00
expected end time 18.45

Standard €25.00

Reduction -26 a. €13.00

All prices include booking fees.