Young audiences
The Dream Makers
From 6 to 12 years-old
Far from the frenetic action of an accelerating society, the Dream Makers take us on a journey into the depths of a fantastic city, shimmering in the middle of the night… Through the power of highly evocative music, enriched with a myriad of emotions, they carry us into their dream and transform the world around them.
The staging allows children to grasp the meaning of the story not through words, but through total immersion in the music of Joseph Haydn, Antonín Dvořák, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Komitas and Eugénie Alécian. Sometimes surrounded or caught out by the quartet, the children are at the center of the characters’ stories, their friendship, their sorrows and their joys. The four artists themselves sparkle with a thousand of lights for a nocturnal journey you won’t forget!
Freestyle Classics
Young audiences
The Freestyle Classics show is the result of an unexpected encounter between two artistic groups that are well known in their field: the Freestyle Lab collective and the Akhtamar Quartet.
The aim of this project is to create links between two artistic and cultural domains that seem to be opposed to each other: classical music and freestyle dance. Through performances, the Freestyle Classics concept breaks artistic codes, advocates diversity and exchange between artists and proves that by joining forces, we can create new sensations and emotions.
This exchange between freestyle culture, a street art par excellence, and classical music, too often accessible for a privileged audience, allows us to gather around the same event a very varied public. Through this link, the artists wish to bring classical music to the streets and bring urban culture to the classical stages.
Copyright : Jordan KBS
Young audiences
Classical music, As You Like It!
Our show “Classical music, As You Like It!” is a concept that offers the public the chance to become a musical maestro, through learning 101 anecdotes about composers and their pieces! What would you like to listen to today? It’s your choice!
A story lies behind every piece of music. By letting the public draw names out of a hat, the quartet renders each performance a unique concert. The fun and playful atmosphere created through the musician’s interactions with the audience allows them to discover more about classical music in an original way.
Each piece the quartet plays forms a link with either literature, painting, or the history of an era or a country. Drawn by luck, whichever piece is then accompanied by a short text or illustration, painting or musical explanation, sometimes a historical account… These elements guide the listening experience and stir the imagination. Time and space can quite simply fall away! Some of the most well-known artistic works are used as guiding tools, like certain films, pictures and buildings. This use of association allows for an incredibly clear understanding of the musical work at hand.
Young audiences
The Couroumîms – An Amazonian Adventure
In collaboration with the company I Donati
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“Les Couroumîms” is the first original work for orchestra, children’s choir and soloists, conceived and produced by the company “I Donati”.
This “Lyrical Legend” tells a story inspired by the legends and mythical characters of the traditional culture of several indigenous peoples of Brazil. It raises, in a playful way, the burning environmental and societal issues that are shaking Brazil today.
Music, song, storytelling and staging are all didactic tools that encourage the audience to consider eco-citizenship, respect for nature and cultural differences as a chance for the survival of endangered ecosystems and indigenous minorities. Following the example of classical composers such as Villa-Lobos, Waldemar Henrique and Carlos Gomes, the music and libretto were developed after months of research into the musical expression and oral tradition of various Brazilian aboriginal ethnic groups.
