In C Programme
Envelop in a hypnotic interplay of music and dance: the London Sinfonietta partners with world-renowned German dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests for the cross-disciplinary UK premiere of Terry Riley's groundbreaking open composition In C. Revolutionary at the time of its writing (1964), it is considered the first piece of minimalist music.
Built using 53 fragments of sound and choreography, performers improvise within a structured framework to create an ever-evolving spectacle of melody, polyphony, and movement.
The length of the piece remains variable, as does the number of musicans and dancers. It is a piece about being part of a group as an individual rather than being an individual within a group.
Presented in collaboration with the Southbank Centre as part of their cross art-form festival Multitudes.
Tonight's players
Michael Cox flute
Mark van de Wiel clarinet
Timothy Lines clarinet
Simon Haram soprano saxophone
Ruby Orlowska trumpet
Ruth Molins trombone
Philippa Mo violin
Zoe Martlew cello
Enno Senft double bass
David Hockings percussion
Clíodna Shanahan piano
Huw Davies electric guitar
Tonight's dancers & creatives
Sasha Waltz concept, light, choreography
Jasmin Lepore costume
Olaf Danilsen light
Jochen Sandig concept, dramaturgy
Sebastian Abarbanell dance, choreography
Davide Di Pretoro dance, choreography
Edivaldo Ernesto dance, choreography
Melissa Figueiredo dance, choreography
Yuya Fujinami dance, choreography
Hwanhee Hwang dance, choreography
Melissa Kieffer dance, choreography
Michal Mualem dance, choreography
Zaratiana Randrianantenaina dance, choreography
Orlando Rodriguez dance, choreography
Joel Suárez Gómez dance, choreography
Michal Mualem répétition
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta is one of the world's leading contemporary music ensembles. Formed in 1968, our commitment to making new music has seen us commission over 470 works and premiere many hundreds more. Resident at the Southbank Centre and Artistic Associate at Kings Place, with a busy touring schedule across the UK and abroad, London SInfonietta's Principal Players are some of the finest musicians in the world.
Our ethos is to experiment constantly with the art form, working with the world's best composers, performers, and artists to produce projects often involving film, theatre, dance and art. We challenge audience perceptions by commissioning work which addresses issues in today's society, and we work closely with our audience as creators, performers and curators of the events we stage.
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Sasha Waltz & Guests
In 2023, Sasha Waltz & Guests celebrated its 30th anniversary: The dance company was founded in Berlin by Sasha Waltz and Jochen Sandig in 1993. To date, numerous artists and ensembles from architecture, visual arts, choreography, film, design, literature, fashion, and music from more than 60 countries have participated as "guests" in over 100 productions. "dialogue" projects, and films.
Sasha Waltz & Guests works within a constantly evolving international and national network of production and guest performance partners ad has performed at over 300 international venues and festivals in over 50 counties and 180 cities since its founding. From its current repertoire of 12 active productions, t company present approximately 80 performances per year. In Berlin, the company cooperates with a wide range of institutions, including municipal theaters, opera ouses, ad museums and has contributed to the establishment of nwe cultural institiutions (Sophiensæle 1996, St. Elisabeth Church 2004, Radialsystem 2006).
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Terry Riley
Composer and performer Terry Riley is one of the founders of music’s Minimalist movement. His early works, notably In C (1964), pioneered a form in Western music based on structured interlocking repetitive patterns. The influence of Riley’s hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated Eastern-flavored improvisations and compositions is heard across the span of contemporary and popular music.
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