Experimental Concert – ‘Arrival Cities: Hanoi'
Thu 29 May 2014, 8 pm
Manzi Art Space
From Manzi:
Manzi is proud to bring you an experimental concert by contemporary music group ‘The Six Tones’ and Swedish composer Kent Olofsson entitled ‘Arrival Cities: Hanoi’. The music is part of an emerging bigger project titled Arrival Cities: Hanoi and will become a large-scale piece in several installments. The first version, for three performers, video and electronics will be premiered in Sweden in December 2014. The final version will be a big installation work and a triple concerto for three soloists, video and orchestra to be finished in 2016. The Six Tones have spent a few weeks in Hanoi working with the Swedish director and playwright Jorgen Dahlqvist, filming in various sites in Hanoi and also working with an actor in the Tuồng theatre.
The Canadian journalist Doug Saunders discusses 21st century migration in his book entitled “Arrival Cities” (2010). Building on research on five continents, his book chronicles the final shift of human populations from rural to urban areas, which Saunders argues is the most important development of the 21st-century. Saunders argues that this migration creates “arrival cities,” neighbourhoods and slums on the urban margins that are linked both to villages and to core cities, and that the fate of these centres is crucial to the fortunes of nations.
Arrival Cities: Hanoi deals with the dissolution of the relationship with tradition that urbanization brings. This is the third installment in a series of experimental music theatre productions on migration entitled “Arrival Cities”. Arrival Cities: Hanoi builds a narrative from the life story of Lưu Ngọc Nam, an actor and costume maker in traditional Tuồng theatre. In Arrival Cities, his travels in the country, the homesickness and the tension between traditions that he experiences becomes the source for a further exploration of hand gesture in Tuồng theatre and an expansive portrait of a city vibrant of memories from the Vietnamese countryside.
Free tickets.
Due to limited seating capacity, please pre-register at [email protected] before 8.00 p.m, Tues, 27 May 2014.
Communications partner: Hanoi Grapevine http://hanoigrapevine.com/
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