The Boat & The Berg
On April 14th 2012 it will be exactly 100 years ago that the sinking of the Titanic occurred. The sinking of the Titanic has become a part of the collective memory, appeals to everybody’s imagination and has reached an iconic status. The sinking of the Titanic has become the almost universal metaphor for the human hubris. ‘The Titanic is unsinkable, sinking unthinkable’. We know better now, even though we seem to have learned nothing, as the metaphor now turns from the ship to the iceberg, melting slowly but decisively.
In the first part, FES plays a new composition by Peter Vermeersch for soprano (Rolande Van der Paal) and orchestra, on texts by Josse De Pauw. The public will hear the story of the iceberg through the voice of the singer, singing of her own fate.
text Josse de Pauw
music Peter Vermeersch
artists
Flat Earth Society
Rolande van der Paal (soprano)
Josse De Pauw (speaker)
Greta Goiris (costume of the iceberg)
Gert Dooreman (text projection)
Length: ca. 50'
The Boat & The Berg is a coproduction between Bonk vzw, deSingel, Antwerp and LOD | muziektheater.
Subsequently, and as a slow sinking epilogue, Champ d’Action brings the legendary ‘Sinking of the Titanic’ by Gavin Bryars: originally written as a conceptual work, it soon became the prototype of Bryars’ elegiac meditations.
Play dates
16 May
Concertgebouw Bruges, Belgium
28 September
Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium, Festival van Vlaanderen
Past dates
14 April
De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium (première)