The Nikel Project
Songs & Poems
by Mandafounis, Mazliah, Zarhy, Deutch, Staub
A collaboration with Ensemble Nikel
Composing actions, choreographing sounds, The Nikel project is a collaboration between two contemporary art ensembles: MAMAZA (a dance makers collective) and Ensemble Nikel (a contemporary music quartet). Both join in a creation of a third entity: one that never really reaches Dance, nor Music. A piece that moves the spectator – the listener – through different landscapes of experience, whose instrument is the space.
The focus of the shared work is the puzzle of the visible and the invisible, the meeting, transformation and clashing of that which is unseen, the score, and its manifestation on stage.
Charging one field influences and touches the other one – a heard image, a seen sound, or maybe overall simply something to feel.
The Nikel project songs & poems Credits: Conceived and staged by: MAMAZA in collaboration with the ENSEMBLE NIKEL Performed by: Ioannis Mandafounis, Fabrice Mazliah, May Zarhy, Yaron Deutch, Reto Staub. Production of: MAMAZA Coproduction of: deSingel Antwerp Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt The Forsythe Company Frankfurt Kampnagel Hamburg PACT Zollverein Essen Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis Centre national de la danse Paris Subventioned by: Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Germany (Doppel Pass program) With the friendly support of the Goethe Institute Israel