Session is a new collaboration between choreographers Colin Dunne and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Drawing upon the rhythmical and sonic aspects of Dunne’s traditional Irish dance, these two incredibly diverse performers discover their relational possibilities through an exploration of sound.
In Session, the lines between movement and music, seeing and listening become a source of play, creating new modes of sound-making from the graceful to the absurd. Dunne and Cherkaoui are joined onstage by composer Michael Gallen and musician Soumik Datta. Gallen’s score draws upon a diversity of sonic and musical sources, threading the melodic eccentricities of percussive dance, timbral noise and sean-nós ornamentation into a larger soundworld that includes overlapping pianos and strings, electroacoustic textures and polyphonic choral performance.
World premiere on February 1st 2019 at the TNB in Rennes ( France)
Credits
Cast:
Colin Dunne
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Michael Gallen
Soumik Datta
Choreography & directed by : Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Colin Dunne
Music : Michael Gallen
Set design: Filip Peeters
Lighting design : Mark Van Denesse
Sound design: Michael Gallen, Jef Verbeeck
Additional music composition : Soumik Datta, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Colin Dunne
Dramaturg: Arthur Nauzyciel
Assistant choreographer: Laura Murphy, Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern
Produced by
Eastman, Once Off Productions & Théâtre National de Bretagne
Co-commissioned by
Dublin Dance Festival, the Abbey Theatre, Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Julidans, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, MC93 – scène nationale de Seine-Saint-Denis – Bobigny, Torinodanza, deSingel – Antwerp, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Sadler’s Wells – London, Schauspiel Köln (ongoing)
With the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation, the Flemish Government, the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter programme and the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Feb 1, 2019
TNB
Rennes, France
Feb 2, 2019
TNB
Rennes, France
Feb 5, 2019
TNB
Rennes, France
Feb 6, 2019
TNB
Rennes, France
Feb 7, 2019
TNB
Rennes, France
Feb 8, 2019
TNB
Rennes, France
May 10, 2019
DDF - Abbey Theatre
Dublin, Irland
May 11, 2019
DDF - Abbey Theatre
Dublin, Irland
Sep 19, 2019
Torinodanza
Torino, Italy
Sep 20, 2019
Torinodanza
Torino, Italy
Oct 10, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 11, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 12, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 13, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 14, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 15, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 16, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 17, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Oct 18, 2019
de Singel, Brula Toneelhuis
Antwerp, Belgium
Nov 6, 2019
MC93
Bobigny, France
Nov 7, 2019
MC93
Bobigny, France
Nov 8, 2019
MC93
Bobigny, France
Nov 9, 2019
MC93
Bobigny, France
Dec 20, 2019
Cologne, Germany
Dec 21, 2019
Cologne, Germany
Dec 22, 2019
Cologne, Germany
