Doek Festival 2016 : May 4
The Doek Festival finale will showcase the final performance of the Amsterdam – Chicago music and dance collaboration with Links Hall, Chicago. In the evening will be a mixture of hypnotic, rhythmic ensembles mixing performance art and improvisation/composition. After the live music, we’ll get down with our bad selves dancing to the grooves of Ron Ruiten.
17:00 at Plantage Dok
Amsterdam Chicago improvised dance and music finale: The Story So Far
Entry €8
Michael Schumacher, Lily Kiara, Ayako Kato, Jessica Marasa, Darrell Jones, Joshua Anderson, Julia Mayer – dance; Michael Moore alto sax, clarinet; Karen Ng alto sax; Jeb Bishop trombone; Annelie Koning voice; Marta Warelis piano; Wilbert de Joode double bass.
Join the artists for dinner between 19:00 and 20:30 – €8.
21:00 at Broedplaats Fenix
ABC Festival Finale
OKAPI
Mola Sylla – voice, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – voice, performance, Paul Koek – intonarumori, sirens, Jochem van Tol – paper, sirens, Genevieve Murphy – bagpipes, accordion, Harpo ’t Hart – analog synthesizer, Jasper Stadhouders – guitar, Oscar Jan Hoogland – piano, electric clavichord, John van Oostrum – laptop, lights, Harpo ’t Hart – analog synthesizer
Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society
Lisa Alvarado – harmonium, Joshua Abrams – bass, Frank Rosaly – drums, Mikel Avery – drums
Joshua Abrams formed Natural Information Society in 2010 in the wake of his releases for Eremite Records. Live the music centers around the sound of the guimbri (a Gnawan lute), integrating composition and layered improvisation to create hypnotic, highly rhythmic, psychedelic environments with an orientation towards uplift.
Jasper Stadhouders’ Polyband
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar, Frank Rosaly – drums, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti – voice, performance, Onno Govaert – drums,
The PolyBand, initiated by one of the newest members of Doek – Jasper Stadhouders, consists of a pool of musicians and physical performers. Their aim is to create a transcendental experience which feels like it has existed for as long as anyone can remember, which will exist for eternity yet has the utmost urgency of the here and now.
The use of intricate polyrhythmic cycles and polytonal environments creates a multifaceted and complex image which plays with the performer’s and the audience’s expectations, desires and memory using a method in which every minuscule change in movement and sound creates a dramatic impact.
They’re looking for the sweet spot; it creates the sensation as if the sound, the pulse, movement and its resonance are lifted off the bandstand and will transcend into a ball of primordial energy which seemingly exists on its own.
Think ritual, hypnosis, trance, symmetry, catharsis, euphoria.
LATE NIGHT PARTY
Entry €8