Tactile Quartet(s)
Vera Tussing
Savour dance with all your senses
In Tactile Quartet(s) Vera Tussing examines how an audience can be engaged sensorially. Four musicians play passages from various quartets (Schubert, Price, Haas, Shaw...). Everything stems from touch: a bow on a string, an arm on a shoulder, an acoustic sensation on the skin. The dancers are go-betweens, linking musicality and the power of the tactile – the sense of touch – in a choreography that oscillates between feeling, seeing and hearing.
credits
Vera Tussing: creation & direction
Michael Picknett: musical collaboration & technical direction
Esse Vanderbruggen, Vera Tussing, Yoh Morishita & Zoltán Vakulya / Bun Kobayashi: co-creation & dance
Quatuor MP4 (Claire Bourdet, Margaret Hermant, Pierre Heneaux & Merryl Havard): co-creation & music
Muriel Hérault: artistic assistance
Caroline Mathieu: lighting design
Jivan van der Ende: costume & set design
JS Rafaeli: contextual research & dramaturgy
Sebastian Kann: contextual research
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Georg Friedrich Haas (1953)
String Quartet no.2
Florence Price (1887-1953)
String Quartet in G major
Caroline Shaw (1982)
Entr'acte
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet no.4 in D minor ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’, D810
Michael Picknett (1947)
Creation: In collaboration with Quatuor MP4
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production: Hiros
coproduction: Kaaitheater (Brussel)
residents: STUK (Leuven), Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek (Brussel), Wpzimmer (Antwerpen), workspacebrussels, Arts Printing House Vilnius
with the support of the Flemish Government
In cooperation with Universal Edition Wien, Auteursbureau ALMO Antwerpen
Thanks to Clara Levy & Quartet partners (Sinouhé Gilot, Hugo Boulanger, David Dupouy, Anastasia Laurent, Dorelle Sluchin, Esther Singier, Victor Guaita) for their contributions to the research, Gorka Gurrutxaga Arruti, Ehren Verrelst, Ruben Martinez Orio, INFINITY, Eglė Maceinaitė, Pierre Kouzmenko & Premiere Music Group
Vera Tussing: creation & direction
Michael Picknett: musical collaboration & technical direction
Esse Vanderbr
partners
In collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Brugge & KAAP
