The Rise

Michiel Vandevelde & Ictus

Belgische première

dance

evocative

eye-opener

Wed 26 Mar 2025 -20.00

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introduction by Lieve Dierckx	19.15
start	20.00
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Contemporary opera initiates a new form of community

There are many known worlds, and more are constantly being added. In The Rise, composer Eva Reiter and choreographer Michiel Vandevelde create a new world, based on a series of poems by Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück. The master of ceremonies is a deaf actor and translation wizard. His gestures are automatically translated into sound and movement, and vice versa. That mechanism of echoes and mediation is central; it leads to the emergence of new musical instruments, new harmonies, grammar, rhetoric and even politics.

WITH LIVE MUSIC

credits

Eva Reiter & Michiel Vandevelde: direction & scenography
Eva Reiter: music compilation
Günter Roiss: movement and sign language
Ruben Grandits: narrator
Lore Binon: soprano
Amanda Barrio Charmelo, Nathan Felix-Rivot, Antoine Roux-Briffaud & Aure Wachter: dance
Dirk Descheemaeker, Hanna Kölbel, Eva Reiter & Michael Schmid: music
Kristof van Baarle: dramaturgy
Ester Manas: costume design

production: Ictus Ensemble (Brussels) & Disagree.vzw (Schaarbeek)
coproduction: Concertgebouw Brugge, Musica Festival Strasbourg, ElbPhilharmonie Hamburg & Ircam (Paris)
with the support of the Flemish Community
the music by Eva Reiter was commissioned by Ictus and financed by the Ernst Von Siemens Music Foundation