Photography: Bohumil Kosthoryz⠀
HEAR EYES MOVE
Dances with Ligeti
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Have ever two forms of art entered a closer and more intricate relationship than music and dance? But how does music actually move? How does dance sound? And where do these sounds and movements meet, once they are liberated from their purported duty to mimic or mirror, to illustrate, to produce an atmosphere, to provide a backdrop, or even to merely coexist, in neat separation?
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti said of his virtuosic Études pour piano that in the process of composition “tactile concepts were almost as important as acoustic ones”. The movements and developments of music, in other words, are not merely a matter of hearing but of sensation, they come to be felt “as a tactile form, as a succession of muscle tensions”. Through these forms and successions, Ligeti’s pieces thus behave like “growing organisms”, and it is following this line of thought that the choreographer Elisabeth Schilling has created an unprecedented take to choreographically interpret those Études pour piano. Treating dance and music as contiguous forms that grow alongside and into each other, she has produced, together with five dancers and the pianist Cathy Krier, a dance-concert and a concert-dance full of captivating multi-sensorial imagery, in which no form or medium ultimately dominates the other.
The project is being accompanied by a catalogue with commissioned texts by Jean – François Boukobza, Stephanie Schroedter, Luc Spada, Nathalie Ronvaux and Roísín O’Brien – soon on sale via the website.
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Grégory Cimatti, Le Quotidien
‘HEAR EYES MOVE is a mammoth project. The choreographer Elisabeth Schilling ventures into the highly complex piano etudes by György Ligeti. Together with pianist Cathy Krier and five dancers, she follows the colours of the tones: a fusion of new music and contemporary dance at eye level.’
Anina Valle Thiele, d’Letzebuerger Land
‘Music and dance are indeed on an equal footing. Both genres form an almost perfect symbiosis.’
Gabrielle Seil, Revue Magazin
‘The sound and dance experience impresses on a musical as well as the dance level with perfect precision.’
Emma Appel, Luxemburger Wort
‘Hear Eyes Move proves that the meticulous preparation of the project by the choreographer has borne fruit. And how tasty they are!’
Marie-Laure Rolland, La Glaneuse
“I was very impressed by Elisabeth’s fine, poetic and sensitive work. I would never have thought that one could imagine choreographies in such symbiosis with the music. What a wonderful work!”
Jean-Francois Boukobza, musicologist and Ligeti-specialist
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CATALOGUE
Video Material
Full length performance with close ups
Full length performance with full stage view
HEAR EYES MOVE. Dances with Ligeti – Trailer
Rehearsal Trailers
Teaser HEAR EYES MOVE. Dances with Ligeti
Extended Trailer for professional audiences
Audience Feedback
Interviews
The interviews were conducted by Anina Valle Thiele.
Interview with the Creative Team ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Interview with Artistic director Elisabeth Schilling (German)
Interview with Pianist Cathy Krier (German) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Interview with Lighting Designer Fränz Meyers (German)
Interviews with Dancers
Piera Jovic & Cree Barnett Williams (English)
Valentin Goniot (English)
Team
Original cast
Live piano Cathy Krier
Creative assistance & rehearsal direction Brian Ca
Dance Elisabeth Christine Holth, Piera Jovic, Brian Ca, Valentin Ganiot, Natalia Gabrielczyk / Cree Barnett-Williams .
All movements have been developed together with the dancers.
Costume & stage design Michèle Tonteling
Dramaturgy Moritz Gansen
Lighting design Fränz Meyers
Graphic design Annick Kiefer / STUDIO POLENTA
Photography & videography Bohumil Kosthoryz
Translation Moritz Gansen, Claire Mélot
Produced by Elisabeth Schilling / Making Dances a.s.b.l
Support in administration, producing & consultancy Veronika Meindl, Jana Robert, Aurel Thurn
PR & Production assistance Tyśka Samborska
Administrative assistance Johanna Schmitt
Funded by Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg
Coproduction Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Kunstfest Weimar, Mosel Musikfestival.
Supported by Philharmonie Luxembourg, Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande Duchesse Charlotte, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung und Kultur des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz / Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz, TROIS C-L Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, European Commission, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, Fondation Indépendance, FOCUNA, Monodrama Festival, Dance from Luxembourg.
Residencies at SPAM!_residenze e programmazione, Italy, WU Art Space, Sweden, Fiskars Artist in Residence Programme, Finland, Dance 4, Nottingham, England, Maison du Portugal Paris, France, TROIS C-L, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Luxembourg, Moselmusikfestival, Germany, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg.
Special thanks to MMK Rechtsanwälte, CASTEGNARO | Ius Laboris Luxembourg | Global HR Lawyers, Jürgen Greis, Frances Tipper, Roxanne Peak-Payne.
Contact
Elisabeth Schilling
dance@elisabethschilling.com
+49 160 5077605
Jon Roberts – Producer & Touring Manager
producer@elisabethschilling.com
Lou begann im Alter von 5 Jahren in ihrer Heimatstadt zu tanzen. Im Jahr 2012 schloss sie sich dem Ballet Junior de Genève an, wo sie Werke von renommierten Choreografen wie Andonis Foniadakis oder Hofesh Schechter tanzte. 2016 schloss sie sich dem Kamea Dance Cie in Israel an, wo sie unter anderem Werke des Regisseurs Tamir Ginz, aber auch von Nacho Duato und Marco Goecke tanzte. Seit 2020 ist sie als Gasttänzerin am Grand Théâtre de Genève engagiert und arbeitet seitdem als freischaffende Tänzerin.
Johanna Schmitt
Johanna Schmitt
