STEVE REICH PROJECT
The Steve Reich project latches on two iconic works by Steve Reich : Different Trains and WTC 9/11. It combines in resonance two historic and political temporalities. Together with the MP4 Quartet, choreographer and visual artist Isabella Soupart sketches out a choregraphic score toying with phasing and dephasing musical alternations that redefine a given space through the application of infinite mutations : a redefined space tensioned up by Kurt d’Haeseleer’s video image. A dancer and four musicians fill the stage. Each performer, from their own perspective, is free to choose, interact or intervene. The choreography is jumbled as it is exposed to an infinity of mutations in time and space. Gradually, however, a time line emerges and becomes apparent.
Concept, direction & choreography Isabella Soupart • Dancer Shantala Pèpe • Interprétation & direction musicale MP4 Quartet (violin Claire Bourdet & Margaret Hermant, alto Pierre Heneaux, cello Merryl Havard) • Video Kurt D’Haeseleer • Light design Jim Clayburgh • Sound design Marc Doutrepont • Set design video Jonathan Sullam • Technical direction Mathieu Vergez.
Production 2014 • H&B Hugues Bultot • Made In Bruxelles • Producer Manager Claude Véron.
Ars Musica • Mons 2015 • Fédération des Jeunesses Musicales Wallonie-Bruxelles • Les Territoires de la Mémoire. Courtesy of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg – KVS (BE) • Les Brigittines (BE) • Service Général de la Création Artistique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Conseil de l’Art de la Danse (BE). Photography©Danny Willems