(Creation Residence )
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 23/01/2023 to 28/01/2023
Juan Navarro
A local choir made up of people from different professions, backgrounds and generations decides to re-write the four movements of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. A kind of Coryphaeus who knows how drama works, helps them with the score and their moves in the performance. They don’t want to use instruments, their voices alone will carry the new experimental score. During rehearsals the group discuss the tragedies, fears and problems of society today. They reach no conclusion. What is tragedy for? What they really seek is to understand the head and body of Beethoven, the implacable deafness that totally isolated him from the world, and his desire to free humanity from something, perhaps from tragedy.
A few years after the great success of the 9th came the death of the composer, and in his last throes he said: “Applaud, friends, the comedy is over”.
The Chorus - What is Tragedy For? is a site specific project that will be performed with choirs from different European cities during 2023 and 2024.
L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà)
From 23/01/2023 to 28/01/2023
Juan Navarro
A local choir made up of people from different professions, backgrounds and generations decides to re-write the four movements of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. A kind of Coryphaeus who knows how drama works, helps them with the score and their moves in the performance. They don’t want to use instruments, their voices alone will carry the new experimental score. During rehearsals the group discuss the tragedies, fears and problems of society today. They reach no conclusion. What is tragedy for? What they really seek is to understand the head and body of Beethoven, the implacable deafness that totally isolated him from the world, and his desire to free humanity from something, perhaps from tragedy.A few years after the great success of the 9th came the death of the composer, and in his last throes he said: “Applaud, friends, the comedy is over”.
The Chorus - What is Tragedy For? is a site specific project that will be performed with choirs from different European cities during 2023 and 2024.
