The Place, Robin Howard Dance Theatre 17 Duke’s road, WC1H 9PY
German choreographer Vera Tussing premieres her new piece You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet (EDIT). at The Place, London’s premier centre for contemporary dance, on Tue 22 and Wed 23 May.
This movement-sound performance is entitled after the words, “You ain’t heard nothing yet” were spoken by Al Jolson in the The Jazz Singer- the first ever spoken on screen. You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet is a movement-sound piece celebrating the acoustic body.
Borrowing from cinematic production techniques, this piece uses sound, text, movement, and foley art to playfully examine how our senses structure our experience; how sounds and images come to be associated in our minds and how the senses affect one another in different situations. The work seeks potentials in different ways of coming to know these familiar modes of narrative production, re-contextualised in live performance.
Cinema works through the combination and juxtaposition of sight and sound, creating a range of possible combinations in which these two senses affect each other to the point where we do not ‘see’ or ‘hear’ a film, but come to ‘hear-see’ it. You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet dissects and interrogates this process of synthesis and manipulation, seeking a new engagement with sensory perception.
Choreography & Sound Concepts ???Vera Tussing
in collaboration with
Performers??????
Andrew Hardwidge
???Ann Pidcock
???????Petra Söör
Writer???????JS Rafaeli
Light Design?????? Arne Lievens
Illustration?????? Gosia Machon
Sound Engineer ?????Emanuele Costantini AMPS
Sound Editor?????? Robin Jonsson
Foley Artist ??????Alex Robinson
Sound Consultant????? Mike Picknett
General Assistant????? Petra Söör
Duration: 60 mins
Produced by EDIT: Sound Bed, a sound movement installation, and You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet, a creation for stage.
Produced by STUK Leuven and Vera Tussing with the support of Vlaamse Overheid. Co-produced by STUK, workspacebrussels, Monty.
Supported by The Place, Pact Zollverein, wp Zimmer, Albert Quesada, JS Rafaeli and dropprod with residences with STUK Leuven, Choreodrome at The Place, workspacebrussels, Monty, wp Zimmer, Pact Zollverein Essen and DeVIR/CAPa Faro.
Tickets and information: www.theplace.org.uk/ 020 7121 1100
