The Nikel Project - songs & poems
2012
The Nikel Project is a collaboration of two contemporary art ensembles: MAMAZA – a choreographers’ collective trio: Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah, May Zarhy and Ensemble Nikel – a contemporary music quartet directed by Yaron Deutsch. Both ensembles join in to create a third entity: one that is neither Dance nor Music, but rather a fusion of the two.
Composing actions or choreographing sounds, the piece creates synesthetic experiences that are realized in the space. The shared work explores the meeting, transformation, and clashing of that which is invisible - the score and its manifestation on stage.
Conceived and staged by:
MAMAZA in collaboration with the Ensemble Nikel
Performed by:
Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah, May Zarhy, Yaron Deutsch, Reto Staub.
Production: MAMAZA
Support:
deSingel Antwerp
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt
The Forsythe Company Frankfurt
Kampnagel Hamburg
PACT Zollverein Essen
Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
Centre national de la danse Paris
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Germany (Doppel Pass program)
With the friendly support of the Goethe Institut Israel,
Mr. Georg Blochman
Presentations:
28 - 29.9.2012 | deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp Belgium
15 - 17.2.2013 | Künstlerhaus mousonturm, Frankfurt Germany
27 - 29.5.2013 | Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis/CND, Paris France
31.5 - 3.6.2013 | Hellerau Festspielhaus, Dresden Germay
4 - 5.10.2013 | Kampnagel, Hamburg Germany