COMING UP
2023
19/03 ~ RITUALS & RHYTHMS - WORLD STORYTELLING DAY
2023 ~ Ensemble in residence @ Gaudeamus, NL
September 23' @ Gaudeamus festival:
New composition by Gaudeamus Award nominees Aya Yoshida and Artun Cekem
Collaboration with Gaudeamus Award winner Rohan Chandar
Premiere of Gathering Fantasies: homage to otherness, new performance by Moving Strings.
March-September ~ Ensemble in residence @Splendor, NL:
Movement Strategies for Musicians ~ Spring Workshops
Expanded Practices for Musicians ~ Summer Retreat
2022
21/02 Moving Strings Laboratory @ Splendor, Amsterdam
19/05-22/05 Chapter 1 - The Epopee of Lucretia / Act I - The city, by Sonia Kazovsky @ Art Rotterdam
20/06 17-20 and/or 24/06 12-15 RESEARCH SESSION | Movement Strategies for String players @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam
29/06 19-21 WORKSHOP | Time, Breath, Dynamics @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam
03/07 13-15 WORKSHOP | Intro into your (and your instruments) body @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam
October onwards Research sessions for New Movement Stratagies for String Players, Amsterdam
2023 ensemble in residence @Gaudeamus, NL
19/03 ~ RITUALS & RHYTHMS - WORLD STORYTELLING DAY
2023 ~ Ensemble in residence @ Gaudeamus, NL
September 23' @ Gaudeamus festival:
New composition by Gaudeamus Award nominees Aya Yoshida and Artun Cekem
Collaboration with Gaudeamus Award winner Rohan Chandar
Premiere of Gathering Fantasies: homage to otherness, new performance by Moving Strings.
March-September ~ Ensemble in residence @Splendor, NL:
Movement Strategies for Musicians ~ Spring Workshops
Expanded Practices for Musicians ~ Summer Retreat
2022
21/02 Moving Strings Laboratory @ Splendor, Amsterdam
19/05-22/05 Chapter 1 - The Epopee of Lucretia / Act I - The city, by Sonia Kazovsky @ Art Rotterdam
20/06 17-20 and/or 24/06 12-15 RESEARCH SESSION | Movement Strategies for String players @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam
29/06 19-21 WORKSHOP | Time, Breath, Dynamics @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam
03/07 13-15 WORKSHOP | Intro into your (and your instruments) body @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam
October onwards Research sessions for New Movement Stratagies for String Players, Amsterdam
2023 ensemble in residence @Gaudeamus, NL
We're developing new movement strategies and expanding the practice of musicianship and we need you.
How can movement and mindfulness practices complement and support our activities as musicians?
Curious to explore?
join our Spring Workshop and Summer Retreat
at Splendor, Amsterdam or online from everywhere
Moving Strings is
Moving Strings is a platform for the research of sound and movement, in creative as well as educational context, working together since 2018. We are a (non-hierarchical) creative performing ensemble, we create our own work and perform it in theaters, alternative spaces and site-specific settings, and collaborate with musicians, choreographers and artists; We hold regular research sessions, workshops and creative laboratories and teach in non/academic institutes.
Ensemble members: Maya Felixbrot, Alex Welch, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Geerte de Koe - Violin, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Nina Hitz - Cello, Yung-tuan Ku - Percussion, Camille Verhaak - Clarinet, Irene Sorozabal - voice and Recorders, Aina Font - Saxophone, Manuela Tessi - choreographer, body.
Current projects
Gathering Fantasies performance that will premiere in Gaudeamus festival 23' and tour in the fall
New compositions by Gaudeamus Award nominees Aya Yoshida and Artun Cekem
Collaboration with Gaudeamus Award winner 22' Rohan Chandar
Play As We Are spring workshops & summer retreat
Collaboration with Splendor community, as part of Ensemble-in-residence program 22'-23'.
We are always excited to collaborate and exchange, feel free to write us: movingstrings19@gmail.com
or SIGN UP to our newsletter to know about upcoming activities and opportunities
Ensemble members: Maya Felixbrot, Alex Welch, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Geerte de Koe - Violin, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Nina Hitz - Cello, Yung-tuan Ku - Percussion, Camille Verhaak - Clarinet, Irene Sorozabal - voice and Recorders, Aina Font - Saxophone, Manuela Tessi - choreographer, body.
Current projects
Gathering Fantasies performance that will premiere in Gaudeamus festival 23' and tour in the fall
New compositions by Gaudeamus Award nominees Aya Yoshida and Artun Cekem
Collaboration with Gaudeamus Award winner 22' Rohan Chandar
Play As We Are spring workshops & summer retreat
Collaboration with Splendor community, as part of Ensemble-in-residence program 22'-23'.
We are always excited to collaborate and exchange, feel free to write us: movingstrings19@gmail.com
or SIGN UP to our newsletter to know about upcoming activities and opportunities
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RESEARCH SESSION Mon. June 20th 17-20 and/or Fri. June 24th 12-15 @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam with Alex Welch and Maya Felixbrot. Movement Strategies for String players Players of bowed string instruments are invited to join and research with us, as we articulate and formulate a set of exercises - movement strategies for string players. Participation on a voluntary basis. WORKSHOP
Wed. June 29th 19-21 @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam Led by vocalist and recorder player Irene Sorozábal and choreographer and dancer Manuela Tessi Time, Breath, Dynamics artistic research and development at the intersection of voice, breath and contemporary choreography. WORKSHOP
Sun. July 3rd 13-15 @Bodlab studio, OT301, Amsterdam Led by Violists Alex Welch and Maya Felixbrot. Intro into your (and your instruments) body Becoming aware of movement in sound and sound in movement through meditation-inspired and somatic movement & sound creative tasks. |
Musicians, artists and anyone whose practice involves sound and is curious about movement is welcome to join. No previous experience / movement practice needed. Participation is 7-15 Euro, sliding scale.
To sign-up and for other inquiries please email: movingstrings19@gmail.com
These events have limited capacity, please register/express your interest as soon as possible (and up to 3 days in advance) so we can confirm your participation.
To sign-up and for other inquiries please email: movingstrings19@gmail.com
These events have limited capacity, please register/express your interest as soon as possible (and up to 3 days in advance) so we can confirm your participation.
BODYING SOUNDS @ De Nijverheid, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht
BODYING SOUNDS @ PERDU
After a year of creative introspection, we are especially excited to invite you to Bodying Sounds, presenting 4 new pieces by ensemble Moving Strings and featuring choreographer Manuela Tessi.
Moving Strings is a collective of 10 musicians exploring the relation and boundaries between movement, body, sound and space.
We invite you to the world in which we create - to experience music from a different perspective, through the body and movement that manifest it.
Our journey begins with a scene from a chamber music concert, where the familiar gestures between the musicians are abstracted into mechanical animation, and continues through Increspature, a score that cycles and recycles sound to movement and vice versa. Then a spotlight on the human voice and the dance that lies within it, and ends with gathering fantasy in which dream and reality mix in a sea of metaphors. All interconnected by absurd miniatures.
Bodying Sounds is made possible thanks to support of the Balkonscenes- Fonds Podiumkunsten
Geerte de Koe - Violin, Noortje Köhne, Alex Welch, Maya Felixbrodt - Violas, Nina Hitz - Cello, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Camille Sa - Clarinet, Irene Sorozábal Moreno - voice, Yung-Tuan Ku - Percussion
Manuela Tessi - guest choreographer
Ellen Knops - light design
Alexandra Baybutt - dramaturgy
Moving Strings is a collective of 10 musicians exploring the relation and boundaries between movement, body, sound and space.
We invite you to the world in which we create - to experience music from a different perspective, through the body and movement that manifest it.
Our journey begins with a scene from a chamber music concert, where the familiar gestures between the musicians are abstracted into mechanical animation, and continues through Increspature, a score that cycles and recycles sound to movement and vice versa. Then a spotlight on the human voice and the dance that lies within it, and ends with gathering fantasy in which dream and reality mix in a sea of metaphors. All interconnected by absurd miniatures.
Bodying Sounds is made possible thanks to support of the Balkonscenes- Fonds Podiumkunsten
Geerte de Koe - Violin, Noortje Köhne, Alex Welch, Maya Felixbrodt - Violas, Nina Hitz - Cello, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Camille Sa - Clarinet, Irene Sorozábal Moreno - voice, Yung-Tuan Ku - Percussion
Manuela Tessi - guest choreographer
Ellen Knops - light design
Alexandra Baybutt - dramaturgy
Moving Strings is a non-hierarchical, Amsterdam-based female collective of musicians, exploring the relation and
boundaries between movement, body, sound and space. We are mainly stringed-instruments players, but also winds, percussion and voice. Musicians with extensive experience in classical and contemporary music, and passion for improvisation and multi-stylistic musicianship.
We have many musical traditions to inspire from, yet we feel free of discipline, as we’re new passengers on an artistic
adventure, in the land of movement. With imagination, fantasy and much listening, we search for an inclusive artistic language, one that contains just one word for ‘music’ and ‘movement’; An interdisciplinary music practice that invites the physical body to join the
celebration of play and creation. We bridge and connect different disciplines and practices: somatic movement practices like Body Mind Centering,
Laban Bartenieff Movement System and Alexander technique, various meditation techniques, mime, indian theater,
performance-art and text.
Moving Strings work together since 2018. We enjoy performing indoors and outdoors, shaping around every kind of
space and audience. We created outdoor site-specific pieces at the Vogelbuurt in Amsterdam Noord, and performed
at Mixtural series, Zaal100 and 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam. We are currently ensemble-in-residence for one year at
Splendor, Amsterdam, where we performed in 2020 our first debut Changing Strings, including a piece by
choreographer Manuela Tessi, with whom we collaborate closely. Currently, as part of the residency, we hold regular
open sessions, workshops, rehearsals and performances.
Bodying Sounds, our previous production was performed at Perdu theater, Amsterdam and at De Nijverheid, Utrecht,
as part of Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2021, with the support of Fonds Podium Kunsten.
We teach as a guest ensemble at Codarts, Rotterdam, as part of Incubator. Recently we created a soundtrack for Chapter 1 - The Epopee of Lucretia / Act I - The city installation by Sonia Kazovsky, as part of Art Rotterdam.
Moving Strings on YouTube
boundaries between movement, body, sound and space. We are mainly stringed-instruments players, but also winds, percussion and voice. Musicians with extensive experience in classical and contemporary music, and passion for improvisation and multi-stylistic musicianship.
We have many musical traditions to inspire from, yet we feel free of discipline, as we’re new passengers on an artistic
adventure, in the land of movement. With imagination, fantasy and much listening, we search for an inclusive artistic language, one that contains just one word for ‘music’ and ‘movement’; An interdisciplinary music practice that invites the physical body to join the
celebration of play and creation. We bridge and connect different disciplines and practices: somatic movement practices like Body Mind Centering,
Laban Bartenieff Movement System and Alexander technique, various meditation techniques, mime, indian theater,
performance-art and text.
Moving Strings work together since 2018. We enjoy performing indoors and outdoors, shaping around every kind of
space and audience. We created outdoor site-specific pieces at the Vogelbuurt in Amsterdam Noord, and performed
at Mixtural series, Zaal100 and 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam. We are currently ensemble-in-residence for one year at
Splendor, Amsterdam, where we performed in 2020 our first debut Changing Strings, including a piece by
choreographer Manuela Tessi, with whom we collaborate closely. Currently, as part of the residency, we hold regular
open sessions, workshops, rehearsals and performances.
Bodying Sounds, our previous production was performed at Perdu theater, Amsterdam and at De Nijverheid, Utrecht,
as part of Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2021, with the support of Fonds Podium Kunsten.
We teach as a guest ensemble at Codarts, Rotterdam, as part of Incubator. Recently we created a soundtrack for Chapter 1 - The Epopee of Lucretia / Act I - The city installation by Sonia Kazovsky, as part of Art Rotterdam.
Moving Strings on YouTube
Activity archive
2021
23/06 Bodying Sounds @ Perdu, Amsterdam
12/09 Bodying Sounds @ De Neijverheid, Gaudeamus festival
Supported by Balcony Scenes, Fonds Pudium Kunst
26-27/10 Awarness to space through movement workshops @ Codarts, Rotterdam
2021-2023 ensemble in residence @ Splendor, Amsterdam
2020
19/03 Incubator Workshops @ Codarts, Rotterdam POSTPONED
10/02 Changing Strings @ Splendor
2019
09/10 Set at Mixtural series @ Zaal100
05/10 Residency and performance for "Street view" project @ Vogellab
27/06 A night of Moving strings @ 4Bid Gallery, OT301
2018
30/09 Artists in Vogelbuurt presents: Moving strings @ Vogellab
2021
23/06 Bodying Sounds @ Perdu, Amsterdam
12/09 Bodying Sounds @ De Neijverheid, Gaudeamus festival
Supported by Balcony Scenes, Fonds Pudium Kunst
26-27/10 Awarness to space through movement workshops @ Codarts, Rotterdam
2021-2023 ensemble in residence @ Splendor, Amsterdam
2020
19/03 Incubator Workshops @ Codarts, Rotterdam POSTPONED
10/02 Changing Strings @ Splendor
2019
09/10 Set at Mixtural series @ Zaal100
05/10 Residency and performance for "Street view" project @ Vogellab
27/06 A night of Moving strings @ 4Bid Gallery, OT301
2018
30/09 Artists in Vogelbuurt presents: Moving strings @ Vogellab
Changing Strings
Moving Strings debut performance @ Splendor, Amsterdam
Feathuring choreograher Manuela Tessi
Interstitial dramatury by Alexandra Baybutt (UK) in colleboration with Percussionist Yung-Tuan Ku
Hosted by Violist Oene van Geel, and featuring his duet with dancer Goda Zukauskaite
With Geerte de Koe - Violin, James Hewitt - Violin, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Alex Welch - Viola, Nina Hitz - Cello, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Irene Sorozabal - Voice and Recorders, Camille Verhaak - Clarinet and Maya Felixbrodt - Viola.
Feathuring choreograher Manuela Tessi
Interstitial dramatury by Alexandra Baybutt (UK) in colleboration with Percussionist Yung-Tuan Ku
Hosted by Violist Oene van Geel, and featuring his duet with dancer Goda Zukauskaite
With Geerte de Koe - Violin, James Hewitt - Violin, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Alex Welch - Viola, Nina Hitz - Cello, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Irene Sorozabal - Voice and Recorders, Camille Verhaak - Clarinet and Maya Felixbrodt - Viola.
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A Night of Moving strings
An evening presenting new music and dance pieces by Moving strings members.
With Geerte de Koe - Violin, Jonathan Nagel - doube-bass, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Maya Felixbrodt - Viola, James Hewitt - Violin, Nina Hitz - Cello Yung-tuan Ku - Percussion and Camille Verhaak - Clarinet.
June 2019, 4Bid Gallery, OT301, Amsterdam
With Geerte de Koe - Violin, Jonathan Nagel - doube-bass, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Maya Felixbrodt - Viola, James Hewitt - Violin, Nina Hitz - Cello Yung-tuan Ku - Percussion and Camille Verhaak - Clarinet.
June 2019, 4Bid Gallery, OT301, Amsterdam
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Residency @Vogellab
During one month Moving strings were residents in the Vogellab, Vogelbuurt, invited to create new work about the neighbourhood. It was concluded with a site-specific performance in various outdoor locations around the Vogelbuurt. For about one hour Moving strings led the audience between the 6 different locations.
The locations were chosen after an intensive exploration of the neighborhood, of its urban landscape and the characteristics of its inhabitants and their life-style . We’ve walked around the streets and parks, observed, talked to the neighborhood’s residents and as a result collected thoughts and ideas. Individually, we each found locations that we’d like to explore artistically - with and from the perspective of sound and movement.
After sharing and reflecting as a group on our individual observations we began working on location, unfolding the abstract ideas into artistic exploration and practical realization.
The starting points ranged from a broad perspective of the landscape such as a playground or an arch, to small details - lines, circles and curves found in the architecture and vegetation, to the sonoric possibilities of the urban structure like street noises or several levels (road, bridge, sidewalk) in one location. Thus, each location was chosen because of its spatial, geographic, and architectural features.
With Pau Sola Mafertas - Cello, Wendela Lensvelt - Viola, Alex Welch - Viola, Yanna Pelser - Viola, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Jonathan Nagel - Double-bass, Geete de Koe - Violin and Maya Felixbrodt - Viola.
September 2018, het Vogellab, de Vogelbuurt, Amsterdam-noord
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Street view
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In Street view, a two months residency program that invited 6 different artists/collectives to create a new project inspired by the Vogelbuurt, Moving strings created new moving-sounding performative pieces that seek to sustain the space beyond its geographical location. Locations in the neighbourhood that are significant to its inhabitants. After interviewing them, we have two spots that are communaly meaningful. One, a peacful outlook to the water of Amsterdam and the other, a complete contrast, Ijskound De Beste, where everyone gets together for cold ice-cream and fun chats.
With With Jonathan Nagel - doube-bass, Noortje Kohne - Viola, Maya Felixbrodt - Viola, Alex Welch - Viola, Pau Sola Masfertas - Cello and Camille Verhaak - Clarinet. September 2019, het Vogellab, de Vogelbuurt, Amsterdam-noord |
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Contact and booking
movingstrings19@gmail.com
Maya Felixbrodt (manager and artistic director) +31643431839 +973523645438
Images by Ali Caglar Erdogan and Ariel Lee
movingstrings19@gmail.com
Maya Felixbrodt (manager and artistic director) +31643431839 +973523645438
Images by Ali Caglar Erdogan and Ariel Lee