»The Art of Being Human«

• Classical Music

Human existence is a contradictory business. »The Art of Being Human« explores the complex impacts of this trite fact. The Grammy award-winning viola da gamba ensemble Phantasm thereby ensures a musical performance at the very highest level. Its members put their instrumental mastery into operation for an evening in which old sounds and contemporary dance blend into an inseparable unit and jointly try to fathom the darkest recesses of the human condition.
Choreographer Sommer Ulrickson and allround visual artist Alexander Polzin create a multidisciplinary framework in which music and movement come together, connect with each other, hook into each other, collide and cross fertilise.

Under the leadership of Laurence Dreyfus, Phantasm plays music of English masters, such as John Dowland, Henry Purcell and William Byrd. At the same time, the musicians interact in the most diverse way with the dancers, who move as partners and yet adversaries around sculptures by the Berlin artist Alexander Polzin. The result is a staged concert evening, which makes full use of the potential of this currently popular format!

PERFORMERS

Phantasm chamber ensemble

Laurence Dreyfus viola da gamba and direction

Camille Jackson dance

Amie-Blaire Chartier dance

Saeed Hani dance

Sami Similä dance

Rodolfo Piazza dance

Sommer Ulrickson choreography

Alexander Polzin visual concept

PROGRAM

»The Art of Being Human«

Fantasien und Pavanen von John Dowland, William Byrd, Henry Percuell, Orlando Gibbons u.a.

Christopher Tye
In Nomine »Trust«

Christopher Tye
In Nomine a 5 »Crye«

William Byrd
Fantasia à 4

William Byrd
Fantasia à 5 »Two Parts in One in the 4th Above«

Elway Bevin
Browning à 3 »The Leaves Be Green«

Thomas Tomkins
Alman à 4

William Byrd
Prelude and Ground à 5 »The Queen’s Goodnight«

John Dowland
Dowlands Lamentation: Semper Dowland semper dolens P 9

Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia à 5 »In nomine«

William Lawes
Consort Set Nr. 1 à 5 g-Moll

Matthew Locke
Suite Nr. 1 à 3 c-Moll

Orlando Gibbons
The Silver Swan

Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia Nr. 4 à 2

Henry Purcell
Fantasia Nr. 1 à 3 d-Moll Z 732

Henry Purcell
Fantasie Nr. 11 à 4 G-Dur Z 742

Henry Purcell
Fantasia Nr. 7 à 4 c-Moll Z 738

Henry Purcell
Fantasia Z 745 »Fantasia upon One Note«