ECLAT Beginners

Forays into a new world of music

with Ensemble SPORT

BEGINNERS

experience ECLAT together with Ensemble SPORT. These are Susanne Brendel, Rafael Ossami Saidy and Simon Kluth, a stage designer, director and actor who normally work on theater projects. They ask questions, get to the bottom of things, interpret. For ECLAT BEGINNERS, they leave their theater terrain and invite you to join them on their forays into the world of new music.

On each day of the festival

they create a BEGINNERS project: before and after a joint concert visit, there are introductions, talks, insights into processes, exclusive meetings with the artists and backstage experiences. There are no prerequisites, everything is allowed: asking questions, discussing, criticizing–or simply listening, marveling, enjoying.

Experience

the new music together with Ensemble SPORT: enigmatic, surprising, overwhelming, insightful.

Admission to the BEGINNERS forays is free!

Tickets for the performances are available here

ECLAT events with Ensemble SPORT

Wednesday, January 31, 9:30 p.m.

DUST

The adventurous and versatile percussionist Vanessa Porter takes us into a theatrical and sensual world of percussion art late at night. info

Thursday, February 1, 7 p.m.

INVISIBLE THREADS

Twelve world stars of new music transform the large theater hall into a cathedral and embrace the audience with a sound ritual full of beauty and sublimity. »It almost feels as if invisible threads are growing between us, connecting us for a moment before we disperse into the world again.« info

Friday, February 2, 22:00

ENCOURAGEMENTS

With Christoph Ogiermann, we get to know one of the most versatile artists, bubbling over with ideas and thoughts, who turns everything on its head with great seriousness and subverts our expectations. His congenial partner is the New York piano quartet Yarn/Wire. info

Saturday, February 3, 4:30 p.m.

THE DAY FANNY MENDELSSOHN DIED

A special song recital in which the duo Lab51 literally becomes a projection screen. Voice, instrument and body are transformed into post-digital hybrid beings on the border between physical and digital space. info

Sunday, February 4, 5:30 p.m.

POETRY AFFAIRS

Five poets and five composers from ten European countries explore the diverse relationships between language and music together with the Neue Vocalsolisten. The result is images and scenes full of rhetorical finesse, powerful, shocking, irritating, sublime poetry, labyrinths of linguistic and musical permutations and subtle shifts in meaning. info

Start and end: 45 minutes before and 30 minutes after the performance.

Limited number of seats. Please register by stating the desired date at beginners@mdjstuttgart.de

ECLAT Beginners will be partially recorded and published as a web series on eclat.org.