Requiem pour L.

Alain Platel & Fabrizio Cassol / les ballets C de la B

dance

Tue 23 Oct 2018 -20.00

introduction by Lieven Van Ael	19.15
start	20.00
expected end time	21.55

All prices include booking fees.

Part of Abo Dance 18-19

Top African musicians in a danced concert built around Mozart’s Requiem

Director/choreographer Alain Platel and composer Fabrizio Cassol - known from avant-garde jazz band Aka Moon – cast their collective eye on Mozart. Together with fourteen African and European musicians, Cassol reconstructs Mozart's Requiem, adding elements from jazz, opera and popular African music. Platel translates the images a requiem traditionally evokes - ranging from a Mass for the Dead to a mass grave to a ritual farewell – into a powerful and poignant performance.

credits

Fabrizio Cassol (1964)
Requiem pour L., after Requiem by W.A. Mozart

executives

Fabrizio Cassol: composition
Alain Platel: direction & set
Rodriguez Vangama: musical director, guitar & electric bass
Boule Mpanya, Fredy Massamba, Russell Tshiebua: vocals
Nobulumko Mngxekeza, Owen Metsileng, Stephen Diaz or Rodrigo Ferreira: lyric vocals
Joao Barradas: accordion
Kojack Kossakamvwe: electric guitar
Niels Van Heertum: euphonium
Bouton Kalanda, Erick Ngoya, Silva Makengo: likembe
Michel Seba: percussion
Hildegard De Vuyst: dramaturgy
Maribeth Diggle: musical dramaturgy
Quan Bui Ngoc: choreographic assistant
Simon Van Rompaey: video