Joint show with the National Ballet Company with sessions from March 3rd to 19th at Camões Theater, in Lisbon
From March 3 to 19, the Matosinhos String Quartet will be at Teatro Camões, in Lisbon, for a dynamic project with the National Ballet Company.
In this new program, the Companhia Nacional de Bailado brings together three choreographers, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Fábio Lopez and Alexander Ekman, with distinct paths, languages and aesthetics, but who are connected through the scores of their works - different composers for string quartet.
The music written for string quartet will be, therefore, the link between the three choreographers who give life to the dancers' movements on stage. The Matosinhos String Quartet, present on stage, will be in charge of the musical interpretation of this show.
This is not the first time they have had the opportunity to cooperate in ballet productions (previously with the National Ballet Company in 2016 and with the Paulo Ribeiro Company in 2021), the Quartet explores their performance on stage, leaving the usual four chairs for a more dynamic and participatory presence with the dancers.
Along with the dance, works by Ludwig van Beethoven can be heard in Grosse Fuge (Keersmaeker), homonymous to the musical piece by this composer (op. 133, in Bb Major); by Gavin Bryars in Avant Qu'il N'y Ait Le Silence (Lopez); and in Cacti (Ekman) from improvisations and fragments of some works by L.v. Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Joseph Haydn.
The Matosinhos String Quartet was created in 2007 by initiative of the Matosinhos City Hall. It develops an important preservation work of the Portuguese and European musical heritage, also performing, in recent years, regular concerts in churches and chapels of the municipality, assuming itself as a fundamental instrument of the goal of democratizing the cultural enjoyment in Matosinhos. It has performed on major national and European stages, having won, in 2014, the Rising Stars award of the European Concert Hall Organization.
Tickets can be purchased on site, at bol.pt or at the usual ticket sales agents. More information at https://www.cnb.pt/eventos/keersmaeker-lopez-ekman/
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