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Drumming de Steve Reich | Gianfranco Celestino, Annick Pütz

Choreography: Gianfranco Celestino, Annick Pütz

Dance: Gianfranco Celestino, Annick Pütz

Percussion: Guy Frisch, Emmanuel Séjourné, Serge Kettenmeyer, Christoph Brunner, Mayumi Orai, Yannick Giuliani, Misato Hayashi, Sven Kiefer, Gilles Bropsom

Production: United Instruments of Lucilin, Institut de Recherche Musicale

Flute: Rebecca Lenton

Voice: Sascha Ley

“Drumming” is one of the most important pieces of Steve Reich, exceptional piece because of its length, but also due to the use of the instruments, especially those of percussion.

Against all expectations, the orchestration of the percussion is quite classical and minimalistic, as shows the presence of three players for only one marimbaphone. Often considered as the last radical piece of Reich, it was also inspired by his „African journey“, during which he discovered orchestras of marimbaphones playing during hours without interruption. The whistler, the fl ute and the voice improvise on certain rhythmic and melodic patterns amplifying the rhythmic patterns played by the percussion. The dance emphasizes this aspect by visualizing certain patterns.

Annick Pütz, 1972
apuetz@pt.lu

Annick Pütz develops a dance of organic character that takes his origin at the body's centre. At the interface of inner and outer world, the choreographic gesture aims at tracing the location's magnetic field. A practice that is renewed time and time again for the different locations Annick Pütz sounds with her work.

Gianfranco Celestino, 1971
gianmcdad@gmx.net

Up to the age of 25 years my life revolved around playing the piano. One day I said to myself: I love music, it is part of my spirit, but I am missing something. Something important, something more physical. When I happened to see a dance performance, I understood of what I had been dreaming and how I would develop myself, making use of what I had already learned.