Dance, Beethoven and cutting-edge sound technology
PART is a performance in which dance, music by Beethoven and cutting edge 4DSOUND technology merge into an immersive sensory experience. PART is an exciting collaboration between OFFprojects, Ragazze Quartet and sound designer Salvador Breed.
PART is about emptiness and fragmentation. What remains when we withdraw or delete something? What potential does negative space have? What comes to light when we unravel the whole and look at the individual parts? Emptiness is often associated with loss, but PART shows that it can also mean new potential – certainly today.
Beethoven’s String Quartet opus 132
With Beethoven’s monumental string quartet op.132 as point of departure, one of his last and most rich works, choreographer Ben-Tal and the ensemble of ten top dancers and musicians deconstruct and play with the notion of emptiness.
The audience sits around the stage. With the additional element of Salvador Breed’s magical sound composition, PART takes the audience on an emotional and philosophical journey through space, movement and sound.
No concerts or performances are scheduled
Credits
Choreography
Composition
Ragazze Quartet
Dancers
Composition and live electronics
Custom software and live electronics
Spatial sound design
Artistic advice
Rehearsal assistant
Light
Constumes
Executive producers
Production
Co-production
Together with
Made possible by
Reviews
Trouw
Part, Amos Ben Tal/OFF Projects best choreografy season 2022/2023
Listen to Spiegel
The ‘Heiliger Dankgesang’, on which the performance PART is based, is on our CD Spiegel. Two string quartets by Mendelssohn and Beethoven, mirroring each other: it is not a razor-sharp mirror image, but one in which the connection between two heavyweights becomes clear.