Schibboleth - ein Musik und Tanz Projekt

Schibboleth

listen to the rift and the silence of time in the memory

Choreography, Performance： CHOU Shu Yi  /  Music, Piano： HSIEH Chieh Ting

Schibboleth ist ein Musik-Tanz Projekt von HSIEH Chieh Ting(Musik, Klavier) und CHOU Shu Yi(Choreographie, Tanz), das von dem Leben und der Gedichte vom jüdischen Dichter, Paul Celan, angereget ist. Diese Aufführung in Tamtam 8 ist das bisherige Ergebniss der dreiwöchigen Zusammenarbeit in Berlin. 

21. Aug   2010

Termin 1 :  19：00 

Termin 2 :  20：30

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About

Schibboleth is a performative project with several phases inspired by the life and the poems of Paul Celan. This performance in TAMTAM 8 is the presentation by HSIEH and CHOU after their working together for three weeks in Berlin. In October, exhibitions of sound-installations and performative activities will be held in some bookestores and then Nan Hai Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan. The final presentation of this cooperation between music and dance will be a theater work in Crown Theater Taipei on November 25-28.

Paul Celan(1920-70) is one of the most important poets after World War II. He is jewish but he wrote poems in German.  Schibboleth is a word of ancient Hebrew which means river and was the password of life and death when the ancient Jews retreatd from a defeated war. It is also the title of one of his poems. Celan´s parents were murdered in the Concentration Camps and this grief made writing poems in German so painful and a insoluble dilemma for him, who has exiled to Paris after the war. His poems became more and more obscure as if they were meaningless sounds. He finally commited suicide by drowning in the Seine river.

His life and poems are the starting point for this music-dance project. Now we try to interpret this silent memory from a distance. We want to feel the body and the sound in these words and to find the meaning which is flowing and changing in theater. We don´t intend to present his life but to remind ourselves in waht way we remember or forget the past.

Artists

Choreography, Performance：CHOU Shu Yi

CHOU Shu Yi has been choreographing since 2003. His works involve dance, theater, architectural spaces, images and body movements. His work,《1875 Ravel and Bolero》, won the prize of Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest 2009 and was invited to be a part in the program of sadler’s wells sample . His solo work,《start with the body》, is going to be presented at Tanzmesse NRW in Dusseldorf in August. (www.shuyichoushuyi.url.tw/)

Music, Piano：HSIEH Chieh Ting

HSIEH Chieh Ting has cooperated with Taiwanese singer and actress Wang Fang,  Taiwanese Pipa musician Chung Yu Feng, and Japanese guitar musician Ohtake Ken. The independent music projects of full evening works include: 2009 Gazing at Absence, 2008 Glenn Gould Project, 2007 Listen to Silver Screen(with Ohtake Ken). Other performace experiences include: Migration Music Festival, Taipei Poetry Festival, Taipei Film Festival.

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