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Dans le Jardin
November 28, 2014 @ 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
$25 – $30
Dans le Jardin
Michael Schumacher (USA) & Alex Waterman (USA)
“ … if dance is the most poetic of the arts and the cello of instruments, then Michael Schumacher and Alex Waterman are the perfect duo with their Dans le Jardin.”
– The Monaco Times.
Dance: Michael Schumacher
Cello: Alex Waterman
Lighting: Ellen Knops
Dans le Jardin is a site-specific duet piece for outdoor space performed by Michael Schumacher (dance) and Alex Waterman (cello). For this special Perth season, Waterman will compose a new score for cello and electronics for Schumacher to perform in the State Theatre Centre’s Courtyard. As always the work will unfold in real time in an improvised manner, drawing on the feedback and flow of the audience itself.
Originally conceived for the Lyons Biennale, Dans le Jardin was performed in the courtyard of the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. At th at location, Alex and Michael worked with the geometry of the formal garden, the flow of the public, the statuaries, and the acoustics of the arches around the garden, as well as the open air of the courtyard setting.
Background
Michael Schumacher and Alex Waterman met in Amsterdam in 1999 and their first collaborations were with Magpie Music and Dance Company. They both grew up in Idaho and felt a connection through having journeyed from there and meeting one another in Amsterdam. They also shared a common love of practicing improvisation infused with compositional ideas and structures.
Image Credit: Yana Paskeva
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