The Rise

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Performance in international sign language, subtitled in French and English.

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Content:
Many worlds exist, and more are yet to come. In The Rise, musical bodies, dancing bodies, singing bodies, create a new world from a series of poems by Louise Glück, Averno. The master of ceremonies is Ruben Grandits, a deaf actor, a wizard of translation, who circulates meaning between language, sign and sound. He guides the ten performers through the mouth of the volcano Averno, which is also the place of passage between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Before our eyes are then reinvented: new instruments, new musical harmonies, and a grammar, a rhetoric, even a politics. Eva Reiter, Michiel Vandevelde conception and scenography Eva Reiter music, commissioned by Ensemble Ictus with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung  Eva Reiter instruments creation Michiel Vandevelde choreography and lighting Günter Roiss, Georg Marsh, Ruben Grandits, Stefanie Fieber-Grandits, Eva Reiter international sign language translation and original signed poetry Tutia Schaad costumes Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics Ruben Grandits narration Lore Binon soprano Ictus Dirk Descheemaeker, Hanna Kölbel, Eva Reiter, Michael Schmid musicians  Disagree vzw Amanda Barrio Charmelo,Nathan Felix-Rivot, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Aure Wachter dancers The Rise, 2024 premiere <iframe width="892" height="500" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zUWUtHRzmGQ" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Many worlds exist, and more are yet to come. In The Rise, musical bodies, dancing bodies, singing bodies, create a new world from a series of poems by Louise Glück, Averno.

The master of ceremonies is Ruben Grandits, a deaf actor, a wizard of translation, who circulates meaning between language, sign and sound. He guides the ten performers through the mouth of the volcano Averno, which is also the place of passage between the world of the living and the world of the dead. Before our eyes are then reinvented: new instruments, new musical harmonies, and a grammar, a rhetoric, even a politics.

Eva Reiter, Michiel Vandevelde conception and scenography
Eva Reiter music, commissioned by Ensemble Ictus with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Eva Reiter instruments creation
Michiel Vandevelde choreography and lighting
Günter Roiss, Georg Marsh, Ruben Grandits, Stefanie Fieber-Grandits, Eva Reiter international sign language translation and original signed poetry
Tutia Schaad costumes
Augustin Muller IRCAM electronics

Ruben Grandits narration
Lore Binon soprano

Ictus
Dirk Descheemaeker, Hanna Kölbel, Eva Reiter, Michael Schmid musicians
Disagree vzw
Amanda Barrio Charmelo,Nathan Felix-Rivot, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Aure Wachter dancers

The Rise, 2024 premiere

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Produced by Ensemble Ictus and Disagree vzw. Co-produced by Musica Festival Strasbourg, ElbPhilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Brugge, Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Perpodium. With the support of the Flemish Community and the Tax Shelter of the Federal Government of Belgium. Photo by © Violetta Wakolbinger