VOICES 2024 PROGRAM

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Music

Dance

Theater

music

Festival Opening: World premiere of a promenade concert created in collaboration with Klangforum Wien and theater director Philipp Grigorian, butoh dancer and choreographer Valentin Tzin, and set designer Vania Bowden. Klangforum Wien will perform compositions by Klaus Lang, Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim, Georges Aperghis, Betsy Jolas, Salvatore Sciarrino, Michael Pisaro, and Terry Riley

with Klangforum Wien
staged by Philipp Grigorian

NACHSPIEL

music

performance

Solo concert by Greek pianist Pavlos Antoniadis, featuring rarely performed works from the second half of the 20th century and improvisation created with artificial intelligence

with Pavlos Antoniadis, video and electronics

ALGOS

music

multimedia

A spatial sound performance by PHØNIX16 exploring sound and migration. The concert program examines artists as travelers between cultures, seeking to re-evaluate their roots in new contexts.

with PHØNIX16

NOMADISM

music

A two-part concert program featuring ensemble mosaik and Duo Falak explores the new music scenes of Central Asia.

with ensemble mosaik and Duo Falak

BEING ADAM: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC OF CENTRAL ASIA

music

dance

Spell is a whirling contemplation on the state of the world, performed by two dancers and a live musician. A magical journey through repetition, ecstasy and transformation.

by Igor Shyshko
with Albina Vakhitova

Spell

dance

A biographical and artistic reflection on the brevity of the moment. In this solo performance, choreographer Ivan Estegneev looks back from his place in exile at himself as a dancer, a son, and a human being, exploring the acts of letting go and holding on.

by Ivan Estegneev

Die Trauer des Dämons

dance

A selection of workshops introduces practices by six dance artists. These open-level classes are designed as an alternative way to meet the artists, hear their creative voices, explore the issues they care about, and experience some of their working tools.

with Asya Ashman
Tanya Chizhikova & Maya Selezneva
Ekaterina Kaliuzhnaia
Veronica Tikhonova
Katya Volkova

DANCE WORKSHOPS

workshop

THEATER

Theater performance by Maxim Didenko, adapted from Sasha Filipenko's novel. A devastating story based on historical evidence and interrogation records of the director of the first crematorium in the USSR.

by Maxim Didenko
after Sasha Filipenko's novel

CREMULATOR

theater

A performance that tackles all the major issues of our time: society, psychology, spirituality, artificial intelligence, identity, life, death, and of course, love. It's a blend of entertainment, psychological training, spiritual quest and unique experience. What kind of experience? One must come and live it.

by Ivan Vyrypaev

Mahamaya Electronic Devices

theater

Аn audiovisual journey into the world of the approaching future, where humans and machines must redefine ethics and social relationships.

by Dmitry Melkin

Drone

performance

A poetic performance about the life and death of Sergei Parajanov, recreating the world of the great artist by weaving together aesthetic images that existentially resonate with his films, collages, and biography.

by Ilya Moshchitsky

TO FORGET

theater

? A poetic performance about the life and death of Sergei Parajanov, recreating the world of the great artist by weaving together aesthetic images that existentially resonate with his films, collages, and biography.

plays by Marina Davydova, Esther Bol [Asya Voloshina] and Polina Borodina directed by Marfa Gorvits

NEW PLAYS READING

theater