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music: Hans Zender, "Hölderlin Lesen I" (1979)
dancers: Liron Dinowitz, Kirsten Enkelmann, Erica Knoedler
costumes: Elaine W. Ho & Anouchka
van Driel
Dance
Unlimited, profile Open Form
Composition,
Dansacademie Arnhem, Netherlands. February 2004
guide-teacher: João da Silva
external assessor: Jonathan Burrows
Hölderlin Lesen - trio version
made as a dance-layer to "Hölderlin lesen I"
(Reading Hölderlin, 1979)
a string
quartet with voice by German composer Hans Zender, a
musical interpretation created from the reading of
the unfinished poem
"An die Madonna" (To the Madonna) by German poet
Friedrich Hölderlin
(1770-1832)
The scetch for a hymn by Hölderlin, which he wrote
in his late age, is a plea of the poet/seer to the
Mother Mary as the Christian interpretation of the Mother
Goddess, who is called upon as the protector of what is young and
growing, against the acerbity of what is old and
embittered.
The music by Hans Zender creates a transition of
this text into the 20th century and combines serial atonal composition
for string quartet and spoken voice reciting the text, with
pseudo-Beethoven motives that are both created from
the same music material (its can be read tonally or
a-tonally).
The dancers "read" these layers of music and text
live and combine
them in a danced interpretation that transcends
movement styles
(pedestrian vs. classical ballet) and methods (set
choreography vs.
open
improvisation) into a more timeless and holistic
event that
re-releases the content as a live-communication with
an
audience.
Like the recited original text, the choreography
remains fragmentary and the
dancers find their way through it anew in every
performance.
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