Inquietus

Inquietus 

for open ensemble. 

Performance at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, on 28th May 2013, by a mixed group of musicians and dancers and the band Stompy’s Playground on stage. 

Experimenting with the idea of breaking down the spatial separation typical of the concert hall setting and the clear-cut distinction between the expected behaviour of performers and audience members, the piece starts as the band musicians on stage are finishing their last piece. They repeat the ending phrase of that piece for a long time, dropping in pitch and rhythm until a chaotic cloud of sounds occurs. At this point the performers in the audience space reveal themselves, moving in and out of the audience seating space, making sound and gradually removing all the chairs from the audience space, sometimes forcefully, even as the audience members were sitting on them. Eventually the band's musicians join everyone else off stage too.

After a while all the chairs of the audience space are piled up in an untidy pyramid in the middle of the space, resembling a funeral pyre, while various actions are performed around them. At the end of the piece, all performers and any audience members willing to participate in the performance join hands, forming a circle around the pile of chairs, humming softly for a short time.

Performers:

Carmen Alcantara (Stompy's Playground)
Joe Armon-Jones (Stompy's Playground)
Timothy Cape
Connie Chatwin (Stompy's Playground)

Ben Corrigan (Stompy's Playground)

Stella Dimitrakopoulou
Samara Dubois

Sophie English (Stompy's Playground)

Josie Hepplewhite

Rob Hervais-Adelman (Stompy's Playground)
Pete Hill (Stompy's Playground)

Alexandra Kremakova

Chi-Ling Lok

Jake Long (Stompy's Playground)
Henry Melbourne (Stompy's Playground)
Evi Nakou

Andreas Papapetrou

Stella Parlavantza
Giles Rozier (Stompy's Playground)

Kristin Sofroniou

Justyna Sochaj
Rosie Turton (Stompy's Playground)

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