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Guests: Slava Polunin, Wim Vandekeybus, David Rhodes, Graham Dean and Shaun Gladwell
Moderator: Airan Berg (Via 2018)
Interviews and conversations including Rick Takvorian (Aachen Cultural Manager)
Introduction: Professor Hans Mommaas: “Urban culture in changing urbanity.”
What inspires these contemporary creators, what drives them? What is innovative about their work? Do they create to confront or to bring pleasure? What is their relationship to urban development, where stages have different meanings?
Slava Polunin
Slava Polunin is a Russian master clown and expressive mime; a great performer not afraid to use modern techniques in his performances. He founded the Academy of Fools and created the well-known Slava’s SnowShow, a poetic, universal theatre spectacle that has attracted over three million people worldwide. During Cultura Nova, Slava will present a short family performance with young clowns who have learned Slava's skills and a concept from an older performance (Strangels) that Slava has wanted to refresh for years and perform once again. Heerlen is the only city in the world where Slava has performed every one of his shows.
Wim Vandekeybus
The instinctive body is the central theme in the work by Flemish choreographer, director, actor and photographer Wim Vandekeybus (Ultima Vez). The turbulent, unpredictable, powerful and yet vulnerable body. Music has been an important and inherent component of his performances since his first production. Vandekeybus therefore had music written by such artists as Thierry De Mey and David Byrne. By integrating film images into his performances, he created complex relationships between film and stage. During Cultura Nova, Wim Vandekeybus will perform Monkey Sandwich, a particularly successful example of this kind of work. Urban Stories occupy a significant place in this special, moving and overwhelming work.
David Rhodes and Graham Dean
David Rhodes has played guitar with some of the greatest musicians of our time. He is best known for his collaboration with Peter Gabriel, but his free and elegant guitar playing has also been featured on albums by Paul McCartney, Joan Armatrading and Roy Orbison. David Rhodes will perform Painting Music, a co-production with Via 2018, during Cultura Nova in Heerlen and in Aachen in the week preceding the festival. Rhodes will collaborate with well-known British artist Graham Dean, who makes music with his watercolours, while he himself will “paint” sound landscapes with his guitar. Dean's paintings are figurative, not literal; they are more a vehicle for expressing ideas, emotions and states of mind.
Einstein's Annual Rings
An encounter between science and art.
Executives:
Rob Meijers Countertenor
Arno Dieteren Piano
Paulien Dieteren Bass clarinet
Foppe Jacobi Bayan
Hans Kockelmans Sound traces
Frans Roovers Technician
| Order | Sunday 28 August 11:00 |
| Location | Theater Heerlen / Burg van Grunsvenplein 145, Heerlen |
| Price | € 15,- |
| Info | Language: English |
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