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Borrowed Light 20.00 Concertzaal 19.15 Inleiding Door Gloria Tero Saarinen Company & the Boston Camerata Carlier Biografieën Uitvoerders En Programma woensdag 09.11.2011 Borrowed Light 20.00 Concertzaal 19.15 Inleiding door Gloria Tero Saarinen Company & The Boston Camerata Carlier Biografieën Uitvoerders en programma De danser en choreograaf Tero Saarinen Joel Cohen is al sinds 1968 verbonden aan Tero Saarinen: choreografie, artistieke leiding met de steun van Culture 2000 programma van begon zijn carrière in 1985 bij het Finse The Boston Camerata en bouwde doorheen Joel Cohen: muziekuitgave, arrangement van de Europese Unie, Ministerie van Onderwijs Nationale Ballet. Drie jaar later werd ook zijn de jaren een stevige reputatie op als dirigent de originele Shakerliederen (Finland), National Council for Dance in solocarrière sterk gestimuleerd toen hij de en interpreet van muziek uit de middeleeuwen Joel Cohen en Anne Azéma: muzikale leiding Finland & Florence Gould Foundation eerste prijs hedendaagse dans won op het en de renaissance. Hij studeerde eerst Mikki Kunttu: decor- en lichtontwerp Concours International de Danse de Paris. compositie aan de universiteit van Harvard en Erika Turunen: kostuums — Nadien verliet hij het Finse Nationale Ballet volgde nadien twee jaar les in Parijs bij Nadia Heikki Iso-Ahola: geluidsontwerp om nieuwe invloeden in de hedendaagse dans Boulanger. Via seminaries en internationale Iiris Autio: zakelijke leiding Shakerliederen in West-Europa en Japan te bestuderen, en in workshops, onder meer aan de Schola In Yonder Valley 1996 stichtte hij zijn eigen dansgroep, de Tero Cantorum Basiliensis, deelde hij zijn kennis met Tero Saarinen Company: Solemn Song Saarinen Company. Tot nu toe maakte hij zo’n de wereld. Cohens carrière werd al uitvoerig Ninu Lindfors, Natasha Lommi, Sini Clamanda & March 30 creaties die allemaal totaalervaringen zijn: bekroond met verschillende prijzen, waaronder Länsivuori, Maria Nurmela, Henrikki Mother Ann’s Comforting Promise een combinatie van een unieke choreografie, de titel van Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Heikkilä, Carl Knif, Pekka Louhio en Holy Order Song sterke vertolkingen, opvallende visuele Lettres door het Franse ministerie van cultuur. Heikki Vienola: dans (Unnamed dance tune) aspecten en vaak livemuziek. De Tero Saarinen Repentance company is vandaag een van de belangrijkste Mikki Kunttu is een van de meest gevraagde The Boston Camerata: I Have a Soul to be Saved or Lost Noord-Europese dansgezelschappen en was lichtdesigners in Europa. Hij werkt al samen Anne Azéma, Margaret Frazier, Fall on the Rock in bijna 40 landen te zien. De compagnie zette met Tero Saarinen sinds de oprichting van de Jane Sheldon: sopraan Voice of the Angels of Mercy een internationaal opleidingsprogramma op Tero Saarinen Company, waarbij hij instaat voor Carolann Buff: mezzosopraan Virgins Clothed in a Clean White Garment poten. Saarinen maakte ook creaties voor het licht en de visualisering van alle producties. Timothy Leigh Evans, Daniel Hershey: tenor Verdant Grove andere prominente dansgezelschappen zoals Daarnaast droeg hij ook bij aan producties van Donald Wilkinson: bariton Simple Gifts het Nederlands Dans Theater, de Batsheva de nationale balletgroeperingen van Finland, Turning Shuffle Tune Dance Company, het Ballet van de Opéra de Noorwegen, Denemarken en Boston, en van Eero Auvinen: productiemanager O ho, the Pretty Chain Lyon en het Finse Nationale Ballet. prominente artiesten uit Finland en daarbuiten, Henrikki Heikkilä, Satu Halttunen: The Great Wheel www.terosaarinen.com waaronder Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Onlangs repetitoren Mother’s Warning verzorgde Kunttu het lichtdesign voor de Marco Melchior: geluid Mother Ann’s Song Sinds 2002 werkt de Tero Saarinen Company opening van het nieuwe operahuis in Oslo. Juho Itkonen: podiumtechniek Encouragement samen met The Boston Camerata, een van Marja Ollikainen, Maiju Lempinen: O Will You Sing Another Song de belangrijkste Amerikaanse ensembles Sinds het begin van de jaren 90 heeft Erika tourmanagement Holy Mother’s Protecting Chain voor oude muziek. Sinds de oprichting in Turunen kostuums ontworpen voor een groot Terhi Mikkonen: communicatie 1954 biedt The Boston Camerata historisch aantal aan theater-, ballet- en operaproducties. met dank aan de Shaker Community van geïnformeerde uitvoeringen van muziek van de Ze was hoofd van het kostuumdepartement productie: Tero Saarinen Company (Helsinki) Sabbathday Lake, Maine voor het gebruik van middeleeuwen tot de barokperiode, geholpen van de Finse Nationale Opera van 1995 in samenwerking met Octobre en Normandie, de ongepubliceerde manuscripten van hun door een diepgaande studie van het materiaal. tot 2009. Daar ontwierp ze kostuums voor Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Festival Civitanova liederen Het ensemble laat zich graag verrijken door grootschalige producties als Sleeping Beauty Danza (Italië), Le Volcan – Scène Nationale du transcriptie van de Shakerliederen door Anne interculturele contacten. Zo werkte het in en Il Viaggio a Reims. Daarnaast trok ze Havre, Teatri di Civitanova (Italië) en Atelier Azéma, Joel Cohen en Donald Patterson 2010 samen met het Turkse orkest Dünya. Het de internationale aandacht dankzij haar 231 – Pôle régional des Arts de la rue (Frankrijk) afgelopen jaar was het ensemble te gast in verwezenlijkingen op het gebied van de en Kuopio Dance Festival (Kuopio, Finland) Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van ARCTIC ACCENTS – Reims met een programma vol middeleeuwse hedendaagse dans. In 2010 stichtte ze haar sounds of Finland 2011. Met de steun van de ambassade van Finland, Brussel. muziek, ter ere van de 800e verjaardag van de eigen designstudio, Ateljee Hurma. Turunen kathedraal van Reims. Sopraan Anne Azéma ontwerpt al zo’n 10 jaar de kostuums voor Tero DANS MET VOX In samenwerking met Cultuurcentrum Brugge is sinds 2008 de artistieke leider van het Saarinens producties. LIVEMUZIEK ensemble. www.bostoncamerata.org Uw applaus krijgt kleur dankzij de bloemen van Bloemblad. Borrowed Light – hoe het begon Over de muziektraditie van de Shakers Choreograaf Tero Saarinen raakte geïntrigeerd medewerkers – licht- en setontwerper Shakermuziek bereikt op een eenvoudige Er werden vele duizenden liederen door de Shakers toen hij eind jaren 1980 Mikki Kunttu en kostuumontwerpster Erika manier een uitzonderlijk niveau van uitgeschreven door de Shakers, maar tot voor het eerst een documentaire zag over Turunen – benaderden licht als een religieuze schoonheid en van emotionele intensiteit. De voor kort waren er slechts een handvol een choreografie van Doris Humphrey die metafoor. De visuele uistraling van het stuk is vormen zijn meestal kort en tweeledig, en bekend buiten de gemeenschap. Een groot geïnspireerd was op de Shakers. De sterke geworteld in de esthetiek van soberheid en maken gebruik van het melodische idioom deel van de muziek in Borrowed Light gemeenschapswaarden en de opvallend de beklemtoning van tegengestelden. Voor van de typische Engelse volksmuziek. De werd, met de toestemming van de laatste mooie, functionele esthetiek van deze radicale de kostuums werd zwaar vilt gecombineerd componisten van deze liederen waren gewone overlevende Shakers, getranscribeerd van religieuze beweging uit de 18e en 19e eeuw met luchtige, doorzichtige stoffen. Het Shakers, die binnen hun gemeenschap originele manuscripten en is tot nu toe maakte een enorme indruk op Saarinen. In de lichtontwerp benadrukt de tegengestelde aangemoedigd werden om hun spiritualiteit nog steeds ongepubliceerd. En in twee jaren die volgden bleef hij de architectuur, het werelden van mystieke schaduwen en uit te drukken in een lied. gevallen – Repentance en Verdant Grove – design en de ideeën verder bestuderen. doordringend helder licht. vermoeden we dat Borrowed Light de eerste Tijdens de periode waarin de Shakerbeweging uitvoering van deze liederen ooit buiten de Jaren later ontdekte Saarinen het album Hoewel het volledige productieteam pas het meeste mensen aantrok, werd deze gemeenschap is, en de eerste uitvoering ervan Simple Gifts van The Boston Camerata. De een week voor de première voor het eerst muziek volledig vocaal uitgevoerd, gezongen sinds 150 jaar. manische herhaling van de muziek raakte hem op één plaats aanwezig was, vloeide het door een celibataire gemeenschap, niet diep, en een idee voor een nieuw stuk begon werk van de beide ensembles, dankzij de vrij begeleid en in koor. In zekere zin is dit Joel Cohen te rijpen in zijn hoofd. In 2002 nam hij contact lange oefenperiode en de toewijding van alle repertoire van sacrale vocale muziek dan ook op met Joel Cohen, de toenmalige artistiek betrokken artiesten, naadloos samen tot één het Amerikaanse equivalent van gregoriaanse leider van The Boston Camerata, om over een voorstelling. gezangen. Een belangrijk verschil met deze mogelijke samenwerking te praten. gezangen is echter de frequente aanwezigheid Ondanks de sterke invloed van de Shakers van energieke dansritmes, waardoor deze Het creatieve proces en de samenwerking met behandelt Borrowed Light het thema van liederen nu en dan bijna perfecte media zijn The Boston Camerata begon met Cohen die het communitarisme meer algemeen: voor het uitdrukken van religieuze gevoelens melodieën neuriede voor Saarinen. Twintig ‘Mijn belangrijkste inspiratiebron waren de door middel van beweging. Shakernummers werden gekozen uit een Shakers, en uiteindelijk heb ik alleen originele archief van honderden nummers, waarvan Shakermuziek gebruikt, maar mijn werk gaat sommigen nooit eerder waren gepubliceerd. niet alleen over het Shakerisme. Het gaat over Saarinen en Cohen ontmoetten elkaar het gemeenschapsleven en over toewijding. verschillende keren
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