Trilogy (Beautiful Dance, Your Eyes, Oh Souvenir)
Ghent, Belgium
2 - 3 Feb '11
Premiere of "Trilogy"
Three short pieces by Albert & Vera.
In "Trilogy" we have tried not to dance to the music, but to dance in the music, to get inside it and dissect the act of listening.
While "Beautiful Dance", "Your Eyes", and "Oh Souvenir" all explore very different forms of music: a piano sonata, a rock song, and an operatic duet, what binds the project together is a method, a set of concerns.
"Trilogy" is an attempt to develop a form of acoustic reading: a detailed, precise translation between the separate languages of music and movement. We try to enter into the music, discovering its structures, and transcribing them onto our bodies.
This is an invitation to observe and to listen.
Background Information
Albert Quesada (Spain, 1982)
Albert Quesada trained at P.A.R.T.S (2004-2008) in Brussels, the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (MTD, 2003-2004), Amsterdam. Previously he studied Philosophy and Multimedia Engineering in Barcelona. Throughout his studies he organized weekly jams at P.A.R.T.S. and taught classes and workshops in different places around Brussels.
In 2005 Albert started working on Solo on Bach & Glenn (2005-2008), a piece which has been growing and touring since, and which gave birth to the duet Solos Bach & Gould (2010).
Albert is active both in stage performances and in making video dances, which, along with his other works have been performed internationally. Since June 2009 Albert has been dancing with the company ZOO – Thomas Hauert. He is currently performing with Vera Tussing with their Trilogy of short pieces on musical structures.
Vera Tussing (Germany 1982)
Vera Tussing graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2005, and has worked as a dance artist in the UK and Europe. In 2007 she began working with Albert Quesada on Beautiful Dance, which was performed in several theatres in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Spain. Their second duet Your Eyes (Originally commissioned by ROH2 for ‘Firsts’ at the Royal Opera House) premiered last November. She is currently working on a commissioned piece for The Place Prize 2010,
Vera created Be Water, a collaborative performance with Rosalind Masson and Andrew Macdonald, performed as part of Arches Live! in Glasgow in September 2008, and is currently working on Persephone (a short listed project for BDE Research Presentation).
In August 2009, she presented May I…, a study of poetic structures based on the work of ee cummings at the Arcola Theatre, London.
Vera regularly conducts movement workshops for young and old (Time Out Projekt in Breitnau, Germany; Mary Feilding Guild, London).
Currently she is also working with Albert Quesada on creating the third piece in their Trilogy on musical structures and is part of ChoreoRoam 2010.
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Ghent
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