Artist Talk & Improvisation: The Emergence of Form

Improvisation with kinetic sculptures, dance by Miri Lee and music by Vera Morais. Artist talks by artists Maria Blaisse and Pierluigi Pompei. Finally, they enter into dialogue with each other and with the audience.

Maria Blaisse (1944) has been working with the Torus (a rubber inner tube) from her transdisciplinary design studio in Amsterdam for more than 45 years on a permanent form research that develops very consistently and trans-disciplinary. For her, this is both an energetic field and a material form, bringing form and movement together; the origin and connector of all other forms that arise in her work, and also the catalyst for collaborations worldwide with musicians, composers, dancers, architects, scientists and engineers, among others.

On August 18 there will be several improvisations with music and dancers with the bamboo structures that change shape. In which Kate's working method as a composer and that of Maria as a designer have similarities.

There will also be an interactive presentation with a film about working with the torus.

Plein Theater devotedly offers a stage for contemporary music. Adventurous and small-scale performances, new compositions and leading musicians; In our regular series Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam you get the opportunity to experience this unique concept in intimate atmosphere every month. And in the summer of 2024, we open the doors of our production house wide. In the Summer of Music in and around Plein Theater in Amsterdam East you get to explore multidisciplinary compositions, get exclusive work-in-progress insights and participate in extraordinary research projects. We invite you to #GetInvolved!

Every summer Plein Theater invites an artist-in-residence, an artist who will have the opportunity for a few weeks to further develop a performance and with locals and interested participants in the creative process. We are extremely excited to welcome composer Kate Moore as the artist-in-residence 2024!

Kate Moore lives in Amsterdam East and is not just a composer, she earned international recognition and her work has been performed by leading ensembles. She has several prizes to her name including the Gieskes-Strijbis Podium Prize in 2022 and the prestigious Matthijs Vermeulen Prize in 2017. To top it off she founded her own ensemble, the Herz Ensemble!

From Monday August 12 to Sunday September 1, Kate Moore will work in her residency on the Ossenlied, which is part of her research project A Beautiful Path.

Het Ossenlied (The Song of the Ox) will be a 54-day hike across Netherlands, England, Wales, Ireland from Oss to Skellig Michael through Oxford to compose an epic story cycle set to music, with a lyre and vielle that she carries with her.

In her research period the composer allows herself to explore the creative process through writing, composing, improvising and documentary in dialog with nature and the environment whilst walking long distance routes carrying musical instruments.

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