An angry boy/act two unfolds from the conversation between a choreographer, a young fashion designer, and a classical musician. Chantal Yzermans invites Andrea Cammarosano and Adriaan Jacobs for a new artistic collaboration during her residency at Troubleyn/Laboratorium. Driven by the theme of 'obscurity,' the three artists work towards a confrontation with their own uniqueness, 'the fact that we will eventually have to part with our individuality.' Together with the dark and haunting post-punk young fashiondesigner Andrea Cammarosano, they create ‘AN ANGRY BOY/act two'. Raw sounds and movement images are confirmed by a coexistence of tenderness and violence.
The performance is a contemporary portrait inspired by Beethovens' Hammerklavier Sonate Opus 106, the score of which was created by the composer at the end of his life. This sonate was born at the turning point of Classicism and Romantic.
So it is with 'AN ANGRY BOY/act two' as it unfolds into two conflictual registers.
And so does the choreographer: finding herself as a creator anno 2008 into a new vacuum: on the threshold of what is established and what has to become.
An angry boy/act two is a contemporary swan song based on Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106, 'Hammerklavier.' It forms the second part of ONR-I, Allegory of Night, a contemporary triptych that develops as an altarpiece for the theater
concept & dance Chantal Yzermans
costume design Andrea Cammarosano
music Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106, 'Hammerklavier.'
live piano Adriaan Jacobs
Première
Amperdans Antwerpen September 2007
Performance History
Monty Kunstencentrum Antwerpen , Belgium September 2008
Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn (USA), October 2009
Instituto Cervantes, Dancing Roads 2013, Bremen (D)
with the support of the City of Antwerpen & Troubleyn Laboratorium Antwerpen