Imagine you are at an exhibition and suddenly the paintings and sculptures wake up and come to life. The colors, shapes and textures, the visual structures become four-dimensional through sound and movement, telling stories in the dimension of time and space. This is what a Moving Strings creation might resemble.
Gathering Fantasies
homage to otherness
by Moving Strings
"Time and again I was astonished that even in such particular postures one can still play an instrument.
They walk, dance, run, roll on the ground, are attached to each other in the strangest constructions and just play on, making optimal use of the spacious theater Kikker. And they manage to convey the composer's message flawlessly every time,
something that I also noticed during the two previous concerts: very clever.
Playing doesn't seem that easy, although these excellent musicians don't seem to have any real difficulty with it"
Ben Tafijn, Nieuwe Noten
Moving Strings @ Gaudeamus Festival, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, 2023
They walk, dance, run, roll on the ground, are attached to each other in the strangest constructions and just play on, making optimal use of the spacious theater Kikker. And they manage to convey the composer's message flawlessly every time,
something that I also noticed during the two previous concerts: very clever.
Playing doesn't seem that easy, although these excellent musicians don't seem to have any real difficulty with it"
Ben Tafijn, Nieuwe Noten
Moving Strings @ Gaudeamus Festival, Theater Kikker, Utrecht, 2023
Picture by Shana Brown
Pictures by Zsolt Szederkényi
PREVIOUS EVENTS
15.10 Moving Strings @ 'Improbellissimo', Theater Vrijburcht, Ijburg
19.11 A Wave Will Come @ A Tiger in a Room, ELAP, Utrecht
08.12, 12:00 Play As We Are research session @ OT301, Amsterdam email to sign-up: [email protected]
09.12 Gathering Fantasies @ Intro in Situ, Maastricht
10.12 Gathering Fantasies @ Splendor, Amsterdam
19.11 A Wave Will Come @ A Tiger in a Room, ELAP, Utrecht
08.12, 12:00 Play As We Are research session @ OT301, Amsterdam email to sign-up: [email protected]
09.12 Gathering Fantasies @ Intro in Situ, Maastricht
10.12 Gathering Fantasies @ Splendor, Amsterdam
September tour 2023
08.09 *PREMIERE* Merge Corp - Artun Cekem, 11-Variation - Aya Yoshida, Gaudeamus Festival, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
09.09 *PREMIERE* My Prayers Are Made of Silicone - BAKUDI SCREAM, Gaudeamus Festival, Pandora, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
10.09 *PREMIERE* Gathering Fantasies, Gaudeamus Festival, Theaater Kikker, Utrecht
11.09 My Prayers Are Made of Silicone + FRÖ, Splendor, Amsterdam
13.09 Gathering Fantasies, OT301, Amsterdam
15.09 Gathering Fantasies, Set Community Gardens, Ijburg, Amsterdam
08.09 *PREMIERE* Merge Corp - Artun Cekem, 11-Variation - Aya Yoshida, Gaudeamus Festival, Theater Kikker, Utrecht
09.09 *PREMIERE* My Prayers Are Made of Silicone - BAKUDI SCREAM, Gaudeamus Festival, Pandora, Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht
10.09 *PREMIERE* Gathering Fantasies, Gaudeamus Festival, Theaater Kikker, Utrecht
11.09 My Prayers Are Made of Silicone + FRÖ, Splendor, Amsterdam
13.09 Gathering Fantasies, OT301, Amsterdam
15.09 Gathering Fantasies, Set Community Gardens, Ijburg, Amsterdam
Merge Corp. by Artun Cekem @ Gaudeamus Festival 2023
Pictures by Félice en Paulus
11-Variation by Aya Yoshida @ Gaudeamus Festival 2023
Pictures by Félice en Paulus
Pictures by Shana Brown
PAST PROJECTS
2023
19/03 ~ RITUALS & RHYTHMS - WORLD STORYTELLING DAY8
2023 ~ Ensemble in residence @ Gaudeamus, NL
March-September ~ Ensemble in residence @Splendor, NL
28/06 Gathering Fatasies TRYOUT @ Splendor, Amsterdam
Movement Strategies for Musicians ~ Spring Workshops
Expanded Practices for Musicians ~ Summer Retreat, July 7-8-9 @ Splendor, Amsterdam
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
2023
19/03 ~ RITUALS & RHYTHMS - WORLD STORYTELLING DAY8
2023 ~ Ensemble in residence @ Gaudeamus, NL
March-September ~ Ensemble in residence @Splendor, NL
28/06 Gathering Fatasies TRYOUT @ Splendor, Amsterdam
Movement Strategies for Musicians ~ Spring Workshops
Expanded Practices for Musicians ~ Summer Retreat, July 7-8-9 @ Splendor, Amsterdam
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
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
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.
More on Moving Strings YouTube channel
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
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
[email protected]
Maya Felixbrodt +31643431839 +973523645438
Images by Ali Caglar Erdogan, Ariel Lee and Shana Brown
[email protected]
Maya Felixbrodt +31643431839 +973523645438
Images by Ali Caglar Erdogan, Ariel Lee and Shana Brown