A Co-Production with The Movimentos Festival
Premiered in Wolfsburg, Germany on April 29, 2015
Premiered in Wolfsburg, Germany on April 29, 2015
When I was invited to create an original work for the 2015 Movimentos Festival, the festival asked me if I would be interested in creating a piece using music by Johann Sebastian Bach, The St. Matthew Passion or The Mass. After deep thought, I answered that I would gladly contend with Bach’s sublime music, but asked for the freedom to choose different parts from his vast repertoire rather than limiting myself to a particular composition.
I also asked for the freedom to incorporate contemporary music in the soundtrack that would be intertwined with Bach’s music. It was a challenge for me to create a piece that can say something about our existence as individuals and as a society. A piece that relates to the here and now, to the past, and to the future. In addition to Bach’s music I chose to use a poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, ‘Lullaby.’The world changes. It is destroyed and rebuilt. Generations come…generations go. But Bach’s music, like ‘Lullaby’, remains forever.
I also asked for the freedom to incorporate contemporary music in the soundtrack that would be intertwined with Bach’s music. It was a challenge for me to create a piece that can say something about our existence as individuals and as a society. A piece that relates to the here and now, to the past, and to the future. In addition to Bach’s music I chose to use a poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, ‘Lullaby.’The world changes. It is destroyed and rebuilt. Generations come…generations go. But Bach’s music, like ‘Lullaby’, remains forever.
Rami Be’er
Artistic Director
Choreography, Stage Design & Lighting: Rami Be’er
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Raime, Tindersticks, A.Scott, J. Kent, A. Marcello, Murcof, Primus, D. Wingo, D. Moss
Sound Editing: Rami Be’er, Alex Claude
Narrator: Eli Gorenstein
Costume Design: Rami Be’er, Lilach Hatzbani
Rehearsal Director: Nitza Gombo
Assistant Sound Editor: Eyal Dadon
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Yoni Avital
International Director
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