Keren Levi | Neverlike

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.

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

07/07/2019	07/07/19	Why Not festival	Amsterdam, NL
06/07/2019	06/07/19	Why Not festival	Amsterdam, NL
06/03/2019	06/03/19	Rabotheater Hengelo	Hengelo, NL
02/02/2019	02/02/19	Forum Freies Theater	Düsseldorf, DE
01/02/2019	01/02/19	Forum Freies Theater	Düsseldorf, DE
08/12/2018	08/12/18	Theater aan het Vrijthof	Maastricht, NL
10/10/2018	10/10/18	Frascati	Amsterdam, NL
09/10/2018	09/10/18	Frascati	Amsterdam, NL
26/05/2018	26/05/18	NWE VORST	Tilburg, NL
19/05/2018	19/05/18	Korzo theater	Den Haag, NL
05/05/2018	05/05/18	MEERVART THEATRE	AMSTERDAM, NL
26/04/2018	26/04/18	Rotterdamse Schouwburg	Rotterdam, NL
20/04/2018	20/04/18	chassé theater	Breda, NL
12/04/2018	12/04/18	Ins Blau	Leiden, NL
29/03/2018	29/03/18	Lux	Nijmegen, NL
16/03/2018	16/03/18	Natlab	Eindhoven, NL
03/03/2018	03/03/18	Theater Kikker	Utrecht, NL
24/02/2018	24/02/18	Frascati	Amsterdam, NL
23/02/2018	23/02/18	Frascati	Amsterdam, NL
22/02/2018	22/02/18	Frascati	Amsterdam, NL
10/02/2018	10/02/18	Pumpenhaus	Münster, DE
09/02/2018	09/02/18	Pumpenhaus	Münster, DE
09/11/2017	09/11/17	Muziekgebouw	Amsterdam, NL

Reviews

24/02/2018	24/02/18	ENKELE VOETNOTEN BIJ VOETNOTEN
24/02/2018	24/02/18	HET PAROOL