Dum pendebat filius (Stabat Mater - Orlandus Lassus)
New Circus
Synthesis of the Arts
Szervezés:
Dum pendebat filius (Stabat Mater - Orlandus Lassus)
This programme is held in Hungarian.
The Szabó Sipos Máté-led Vass Lajos Chamber Choir and the Grotesque Gymnastics company Crucified -titled, Jesus Christ passion-narrating multidisciplinary performance combines the pure, meditative sound of Renaissance choral works and the expressive drama of improvised music with the movement world of contemporary circus. The performance is built on one of the finest works of 16th-century vocal music, Orlando di Lasso's Stabat Mater: improvised contemporary-music inserts are wedged between the movements of the eight-part work, connected to the seven last words Christ spoke on the cross, and performed by the choir members supplemented with percussion instruments. The intense expressiveness of the improvisational blocks counterpoints the restrained emotional clarity of Renaissance music. Meanwhile, the passion story appears on stage through the means of movement art and aerial acrobatics: in the choreography by Téri Gáspár and Bardóczy Ilka the artists' floating bodies, as slowly merging images, evoke moods characteristic of icon painting in the space surrounding the choir and the musicians. Down and up, tradition and modernity, the encounters of abstract sacred spaces and the flesh-and-blood reality of the passion all become visible and audible in this incredibly exciting performance.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
