Odeon Theater
Taborstraße 10, 1200 Vienna
Eva Reiter, Michiel Vandevelde, Ictus Ensemble
The Rise
The sound of the gesture
THE RISE opens the Musiktheatertage Wien 2025 with a journey into the poetic realms of experience by Louise Glück, in which life and death meet. At the centre of the play is the deaf Narrator Ruben Grandits, who as master of ceremonies leads through the gorge of a volcano, a mythicallogical place of transition between life and the underworld.
His sign language is converted into audible informaand is the basis for the choreographicphical design. In this way, messagesbetween sign language, music and dance back and forth and appear as a Echo with an unavoidable degree of distorted meaning.
Eva Reiter and Michiel Vandevelde develop, ininspired by Glücks Averno, an access to other worlds. The performance can be enjoyed by hearing andread and understood equally by deaf viewers and be received.
Director Eva Reiter: "THE RISE was born out of the deep conviction that only an attitude of focussed attention can bring about a process of inclusive action.
Accessibility is not a purely technical process. It requires translation as a continuous mediation not only between languages, but also between different sensory qualities and cultural self-understandings, a labour-intensive technique that must be accepted as a prerequisite for inclusion."
Talk about The Rise
with the composer Eva Reiter and Ruben Grandits as well as an interpreter
Wed, 17.09. ca 21.30 (after the event)
Moderation: Georg Steker
Location: Odeon Theatre
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Credits
Concept, direction and set design
Eva Reiter, Michiel Vandevelde
Music composition, electronics
Eva Reiter
Choreography, lights
Michiel Vandevelde
Narrator
Ruben Grandits
Soprano
Lore Binon
Dancers
Amanda Barrio Charmelo
Nathan Felix-Rivot
Antoine Roux-Briffaud
Aure Wachter
Musicians
Dirk Descheemaeker
Hanna Kölbel
Eva Reiter
Michael Schmid
Costumes
Tutia Schaad
IRCAM computer music design
Augustin Muller
Sound
Alexandre Fostier
assisted by
Antoine Delagoutte
Outside eye
Kristof van Baarle
Translation into International Sign
and original poetry sign
Günter Roiss, Georg Marsh, Ruben Grandits, Stefanie Fieber-Grandits, Eva Reiter
Technical director Pieter Nys
Light operator Freek Pieters
Set design assistance Daniella Khoury
Design backdrop four Ward Heirwegh
Costume assistance Jette Dresbach
Production
Ictus Ensemble
Disagree. vzw
Co-production
Musica Festival Strasbourg
ElbPhilharmonie Hamburg
Concertgebouw Brugge
Ircam Centre Pompidou
Perpodium
KWP (in Pianofabriek)
Photo: Bea Borgers
With the support of
Flemish Community
The Tax Shelter of the
Belgian Federal Government
Eva Reiter's music commissioned by Ictus is funded by Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung
With the financial support from the Austrian Cultural Forum.
Bios
Eva Reiter
Eva Reiter, born in Vienna, studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She works as a musician, composer, performer, lecturer and artistic curator. She teaches at academies for early music and for composition (ARCO - Art Research and Creation, Marseille; Voix Nouvelles Academy, Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik a. o.). Since 2020 she has been teaching composition at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien. In 2021, she was awarded a grant from the City of Vienna for the artistic research project Transforming Instrumental Gestures. For the year 2024 she was invited as guest curator for the Klangspuren Festival. Eva Reiter performs as a soloist and with various orchestras and ensembles for early and contemporary music (including Ictus, Klangforum Wien). Since 2015 she has been a member of the Belgian ensemble Ictus.
Her work as a composer has received several awards. She has performed her compositions at international festivals such as ISCM World New Music Festival, Wien Modern, Klangspuren, MaerzMusik, musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Kunstenfestivaldasarts, Wiener Festwochen and others. In the 2019/20 season Eva Reiter was resident artist at the Elbphiharmonie Hamburg and the Wiener Konzerthaus
Michiel Vandevelde
Michiel Vandevelde studied dance and choreography at P.A.R.T.S., Brussels. He is active as a choreographer, curator, writer and editor. As a curator he is currently connected to Arts Centre DE SINGEL (Antwerp, BE). Previously, as a freelancer he worked for Extra City Kunsthal, Het Bos, Bâtard festival, Precarious Pavilions. Vandevelde's artistic work is presented and supported throughout Europe by Münchner Kammerspiele, Kaaitheater, Concertgebouw Brugge/Dans in Brugge, Platform-K, PACT Zollverein, Wiener Festwochen, steirischer herbst, STUK, Viernulvier, Theater Neumarkt, among others. From 2017 to 2021 Michiel Vandevelde was artist in residence at Kaaitheater (Brussels, BE). In 2021-2022 Vandevelde was Creative Ambassador of the city of Leuven (BE).
In his work he investigates the elements that constitute or obstruct the contemporary public sphere. He explores which other social, economic and cultural alternatives we can imagine in order to question, challenge and transform dominant logics and ways of organising. He has been developing a variety of projects both in public space and in (performing) arts institutions.
Ictus Ensemble
Ictus is a Brussels-based contemporary music ensemble. Since 1994, it has shared the premises of the P.A.R.T.S dance school, and the Rosas company (headed by Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker) with which it has collaborated on fifteen productions, from Amor Constante to Repertoire Evening. Ictus has also worked with other choreographers including Wim Vandekeybus, Maud Le Pladec, Ula Sickle, Noé Soulier, Eleanor Bauer, Fumiyo Ikeda, Etienne Guilloteau and Claire Croizé.
Ictus has shared, and sometimes amplified, current questions about the future of contemporary music. Initially led by conductor Georges-Elie Octors, at a time when ensembles saw themselves as mini-orchestras made up of highly technical soloists, Ictus mutated into an "electric orchestra" and hired, for example, a regular sound engineer as an instrumentalist. It then became a multifaceted collective of creative musicians, dedicated to experimental music in the broadest sense.