WELCOME to the WONDERFUL WORLD of WALPURGIS & guests
On 30 April 2009, theFENIKS in Mortsel was festively opened to the public. The unconventional combination of genres and artists makes the FENIKS FESTIVAL an annual, unique event full of surprising encounters.
On Sunday, May 3, WALPURGIS organised an introduction to the Alexander Technique ism AEFMAT in parallel with the artistic programming of the FENIKS FESTIVAL, as well as a buffet at which artists and audiences sat down together
As long as we talk there is hope - opening speech
André Klukhuhn
Opening speech on methodical pluralism in art and science by one of the Netherlands' most extraordinary scholars. André Klukhuhn wrote the philosophy bestseller The history of thinking (2003) and the recently published All people are called Janus (2008).
Cinema Novo
Michel Massot, Tuur Florizoone & Marine Horbaczewski
As Tuur Florizoone, accordionist and composer (known from, among others, the film Collision in Moscou) and tuba and trombone virtuoso Michel Massot meet cellist Marine Horbaczewski, a powerful alchemy ensues. While improvising, the trio conjures the strangest, most pleasantly disturbed, but above all moving sounds from their instruments, balancing between contemporary classical music and jazz improvisations. They will play work from their first CD Cinema Novo.
Stupid Horse fragments
Thaïs Scholiers & Johan Bossers
A short flash from the hotly anticipated WALPURGIS production each evening Stupid Horse (Summer of Antwerp 2006).
MEDIUM
Johanne Saunier
Sandwiched between a text she had wanted to invent and movements faster than she could ever have imagined, dancer Johanne Saunier lends her body to images and lets her voice imitate another. She tries to embody a moment. Her daily routine.
TRINITY songs
Benjamin Dieltjens & Judith Vindevogel
Song cycle for soprano, clarinet and live electronics by Bart Vanhecke set to excerpts from the Bhagavad Ghita, among others, commissioned by WALPURGIS for the performance TRINTIY trip.
NDE - first reading
Jeroen Brouwers, Josse De Pauw & Eric Thielemans
Midnight reading by Josse De Pauw and Eric Thielemans of a monologue commissioned by WALPURGIS and written by Jeroen Brouwers. The title NDE refers to the phenomenon of the 'near-death experience'. For Brewers, not a mystical, blissful sensation but a nightmare on the blurred line between fiction and non-fiction.
Introduction to the Alexander Technique
AEFMAT/Athanase Vettas
Or propos
Claire Goldfarb
A delicate dialogue between Liège-based composer, cellist and singer Claire Goldfarb and her cello.
And next year your headline
Jochen Balbaert, Stefaan Degand & Kaat Hellings
A bizarre medieval knight's tale for three voices to lyrics by Tom Hannes and music by Steve Reich and Rudi Genbrugge.
Stupid Horse fragments
Thaïs Scholiers & Johan Bossers
Each evening, a short flash from the hotly anticipated WALPURGIS production Stupid Horse (Summer of Antwerp 2006).
Wings for the walker: Cole Porter Anthology I
Wilfried Van den Brande & Dirk Baert
Night and day, I've got you under my skin, Ev'ry time we say goodbye, Begin the beguine, Anything goes. As part of his residency at WALPURGIS, Wilfried Van den Brande offers not only these world-famous Cole Porter songs, but also some lesser-known gems from the 800-plus song oeuvre of this high-society hedonist-annex-stoic.
Machinations - version VocalLAB Netherlands 2009
VocalLAB Netherlands
VocalLAB is an international workshop and production house dedicated to the development and performance of contemporary vocal music. The concert performance of Machination, a composition by French-Greek composer Georges Aperghis, is the basis of a new music theatre creation with which they will premiere at OperaDagenRotterdam at the end of May.
Ophelia
Sarah Maria Sun, stefanpaul & Michael von zur Mühlen
An out-of-control performance of Richard Strauss's classic Ophelia songs by German soprano Sarah Maria Sun (Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart) directed by the hotly controversial young German director Michael von zur Mühlen.
Stupid Horse fragments
Thaïs Scholiers & Johan Bossers
Each evening, a short flash from the hotly anticipated WALPURGIS production Stupid Horse (Summer of Antwerp 2006).
The wider world of water
Iris De Blaere, Frank Nuyts & Dirk Opstaele
Leporello and Hardscore joined forces for a musical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Tin Soldier, in which the transmission of meaning through words slowly merges into pure sound semantics and rhythmic structures. Rhythm replaces logic, reason spills over into feeling.
Whiter than chalk was her habit - interactive live recording & preliminary study
Eurudike The Executioner, Amparo Cortés & Glenn Vervliet
As part of her residency at WALPURGIS, mezzo-soprano Eurudike De Beul will explore the universal 'cri humain' together with the audience and in the company of flamenco singer Amparo Cortés.
Introduction to the Alexander Technique
free individual introductory lessons by several teachers from AEFMAT, the Belgian association for teachers of the Alexander Technique
Penelope - clip
Sisters The Executioner, Valeria Garré & Glenn Vervliet
An excerpt from Coldfire's musical theatre project about the ever-waiting Penelope.
Stupid Horse fragments
Thaïs Scholiers & Johan Bossers
Each evening, a short flash from the hotly anticipated WALPURGIS production Stupid Horse (Summer of Antwerp 2006).
Whiter than chalk was her habit - preliminary sketch
Eurudike The Executioner, Amparo Cortés & Glenn Vervliet
As part of her residency at WALPURGIS, mezzo-soprano Eurudike De Beul will explore the universal 'cri humain' together with the audience and in the company of flamenco singer Amparo Cortés.
Wings for the walker - Cole Porter Anthology II
Wilfried Van den Brande & Dirk Baert
Night and day, I've got you under my skin, Ev'ry time we say goodbye, Begin the beguine, Anything goes. As part of his residency at WALPURGIS, Wilfried Van den Brande offers not only these world-famous Cole Porter songs, but also some lesser-known gems from the 800-plus song oeuvre of this high-society hedonist-annex-stoic.
BUFFET
WALPURGIS closes the FENIKS FESTIVAL festively with a varied buffet where audience and performers sit together at the table.
