Talea
András Déri and Jared Onyango’s choreography Talea is based on
the structure of a musical composition of the same title by contemporary
French composer Gerard Grisey, a pioneer of spectralist music. The
score, composed for piano, cello, flute, clarinet and violin, is
performed live, the spatial placement of the players forming an
improvisatory playground. The two dancers enter the structure of the
musicians around them in an interactive manner. Their operation as
musical elements expressed by movements turns the quintet into a septet.
In 2014, the creators were given a task to create a duet for a
score selected from specified works of contemporary composers, as part
of the curriculum at P.A.R.T.S. During the presentation, their choosen
score was performed live by Ensemble Fractales, composed of the MA
students of contemporary music of Ictus, Brussels.
Choreography / Dance: András Déri, Jared Onyango
Composer: Gerard Grisey
Violin: Kaya Kuwabara
Cello: Diego Amaral Coutinho
Clarinet: Benjamin Maneyrol
Flute: Hanna Reardon-Smith
Piano: Gian Ponte
The research conducted by Déri and Bazsinka within the curriculum of P.A.R.T.S., titled Research on the moment in one note, was continued in 2013. Their collaboration was joined by violinist Amelia Tionada, dancer Sara Leah Tan and dancer/musician (African marimba) Charles Ngombengombe to create Research on the moment from multiple perspectives. Among the areas of research opened in the experience of “one note”, they examined the possibilities of interactive relations between music and dance, from the aspect of mutual control (leading) and synchronization (following), through the parameters of space, pitch, rhythm and associations.
A dialogue was started between the intuitiveness of free improvisation and a reflective, analytical way of thinking, creating a didactically demonstrable system, and opening possibilities for further and further dimensions within it. This dialogue provided further basis for the creative mechanism later named Consciousness Cloud.
Concept: András Déri / Mihály Bazsinka
Choreography / Dance: Sara Leah Tan, Charles Ngombengombe, András Déri
Composition / Music: Amelia Tionada, Charles Ngombengombe, Mihály Bazsinka
Mentor: David Hernandez
The piece titled Research on the moment in one note is an 8-minute improvisational act that played a key role in the evolution of Déri’s work. The piece premiered in the summer of 2011 at a public school show at the Bronks Theater, when he was a freshman student at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels.
The work is built on a simple structure and task for a musician (saxophonist) and a dancer. Its simplicity gives room for complex improvisational possibilities. The exercise invites the audience to experience one sound on 3 different levels and 4 timeframes. The play started a never-ending research process for Déri and was the foundation of his creative mechanism called the “Consciousness Cloud”.
Circle-triangle
The Circle-triangle is the 3rd autodidactic work of András Déri and Mihály Bazsinka saxophonist. The piece had won a special award at the SzólóDuó International Dance Festival in Budapest in 2007.
Their early works were evenly formed by the connection in between music and dance from the beginning, and though it was initially built on pre-set movements, noises and abstract symbolism, the interactive nature of their work has later led the artists more towards improvisation.
“Two people, two ambiances, one feeling. Two people, two feelings, one ambiance. Two feelings, two ambiances, one person. All in one, but three. All is continuous, but interrupted. All is smooth, but angular. I am good, but bad. I am bad, but good. I hate myself lovingly.”