Ictus, Eva Reiter & Michiel Vandevelde
The Rise
Eva Reiter, Michiel Vandevelde – concept, direction, set design
Eva Reiter – composition*, electronics
Michiel Vandevelde – choreography, lights
Ruben Grandits – narrator
Lore Binon – soprano
Amanda Barrio Charmelo, Nathan Feliot, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Aure Wachter – dancers
Dirk Descheemaeker, Hanna Kölbel, Eva Reiter, Michael Schmid – musicians
Tutia Schaad – costumes
Augustin Muller – IRCAM computer music design
Alexandre Fostier, assisted by Antoine Delagoutte – sound
Kristof van Baarle – outside eye
Günter Roiss, Georg Marsh, Ruben Grandits, Stefanie Fieber-Grandits, Eva Reiter – translation into International Sign and original poetry sign
Pieter Nys – technical director
Freek Pieters – light operator
Daniella Khoury – set design assistance
Ward Heirwegh – design backdrop four
Jette Dresbach – costume assistance
Production
Ictus, Disagree.vzw
Coproduction
Kaaitheater, Klarafestival Musica Festival Strasbourg, ElbPhilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Brugge, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Perpodium, KWP (in Pianofabriek), Österreichischer Kulturforum Brüssel
With the support of
the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government
* Eva Reiter's music commissioned by Ictus is funded by Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung
‘Who can say what the world is? The world is in flux, therefore unreadable, the winds shifting, the great plates invisibly shifting and changing.’ – Louise Glück, Averno
Averno, a crater lake in Italy, is said to be the portal to the underworld. This is where the realms of the living and the dead meet. Louise Glück's book of poetry of the same name was the inspiration for The Rise, a new performance by composer Eva Reiter and choreographer Michiel Vandevelde.
Ruben Grandits, a young deaf performer, narrates the story. Using sensors, his sign language is converted into sound, which soprano Lore Binon and four musicians then set to work with. They play instruments designed by Eva Reiter for the occasion. Four dancers retranslate this acoustic world into movement. From this echo of gestures and sounds, a unique chorus emerges that gradually becomes a new community. Here, the fantasy of a pure, direct language gives way to a multiplicity of worlds and perspectives.
The Rise © Bea Borgers
