Tactile Quartet(s)

This time round, Tussing invites string quartet Quatour MP4 to join four dancers on stage for a playful encounter between movement and sound. What if we take the movements of a string quartet seriously as a choreography – and dance along.

As the musicians engage in one-on-one tactile encounters with the audience members, they create a physical play back. Everything arises from touch - a bow on a string, an arm on a shoulder, a sound on your skin. The dancers mediate the encounter between musicality and tactility through a choreography that oscillates between the felt, the seen, the heard and the aesthetic. The commands, movements, and communications which animate musicality are refracted through their synaesthetic lens. At the point where the orbits of dance and music intersect, the audience is invited to enter into its kaleidoscopic score. In the midst of this constellation, the audience is asked to give a hand – or an arm.