Concerts | Klankhaven

After the notable Oorstof passages by harpists Marjolein Vernimmen and Jenna Vergeynst: Outdoor Hiking with Sound & Other Fireworksin Antwerp’s Middelheim Park and Echo Yes No(Svoboda) and Refraction(Van Esser) during Ruiskamer #6 at Ghent’s Miry, Vernimmen and Vergeynst bring the fascinating, West African Kora-inspired composition You, me, in treesby Haroun Iqbalto the stage.

Composer, guitarist, and musical world traveler Iqbal wrote this composition for Vireoafter an in-depth study—featuring inspiring musicians such as Derek Gripper and Bao Sissoko (Baaba Maal, Zap Mama)—into the fascinating world of the West African Kora. For this new Oorstof/Klankhaven edition, Iqbal joins the harp duo live on stage for what promises to be a unique rendition of this enchanting piece.

ILARIA ORLANDINI – ANDRÉS NAVARRO GARCÍA (IT/ES/BE)

Ilaria Orlandini(dance) and Andrés Navarro García(percussion) live in Brussels. They are interested in contemporary artistic creation and work on the border between instant and choreographic composition.

For this new Oorstof/Klankhaven collaboration at Rataplan, Orlandini and Navarro Garcia will present Zaman. This dance and percussion duo is an invitation to lightness and simplicity, a call to act without pretension or calculation, a touch of childhood. Together, they explore their authenticities and individual singularities.

Zaman, Turkish for Time, is a duo of dance and percussion. Movement and sound are composed instantaneously. Two independent entities coexist, never glancing at each other, yet they meet in the action of time. A simple communication between the dancing gesture and the musical gesture. How to hear dance, how to see music? A dynamic of the moment, which leaves room for the appearance of memories in dialogue with what will be the future gesture.