Noche

ONE EVENING - THREE PROPOSALS
Discover the performances of Alma Söderbergh and the famous Cullberg Ensemble and her film La Mano que Canta (The Hand that Sings), directed with Alex Reynolds, in a single evening. Take advantage of a special price for this event!

DI/MAR 29.11 - COURTRAI, Budascoop

19:00 - La Mano que Canta (gratis)

19:30 - The Listeners

21:00 - Noche

There's more in a break than you think.

Rhythm, voice and movement are always at the centre of Alma Soderberg's work. But whereas in her first collaboration with Cullberg, The Listeners (2020) she interwove voice and movement, here she explores the moment of break : the cut, the moment at which what flows is broken off or reversed.

A break can be a relief or feel like a resting point but it may as well introduce a crisis. In music the break cancels a beat, for example to attract the attention of the listener or to put a soloist at the centre. It's a catching trick to make the swing even more swinging, to make the drop even drop deeper. But it can also break through and destabilize the status quo to allow transformation. In this work Soderberg, Cullberg and composer Hendrik Willekens are looking for those pauses and disruptions that make the flow possible.

Alma Soderberg lives and works in Brussels but has shown her creations at the most important European stages and festivals. In 2016 she was awarded the Birgit Cullberg Grant named after the founder of the company. Cullberg may well be the most important company for contemporary dance in Sweden. There are seventeen dancers now who work together with international choreographers and artists and tour the whole world. At NEXT Noche is shown as a double bill with The Listeners.