What happens when music does more than support a scene and starts playing an active role in it? In this NFF Focustalk, actors and composers explore how music, singing and performance work together to shape a character. Expect insights from practice as well as a live experiment in which the exact same scene takes on two entirely different meanings.
An actor gives a character a face. A composer can give that same character emotion, tension, or even a hidden layer. Yet during a production, these two disciplines do not always work closely together. So what happens when they do?
During this NFF Focustalk, we explore how performance and music can strengthen one another, and how differently a scene can feel when music is not simply added afterwards, but becomes part of the creative process from the very beginning.
We start the conversation with actor Uriah Havertong and composers Fons Merkies and Laurens Goedhart, who worked on the musical film Net als in de film, in which characters quite literally sing to reveal who they are. How do acting and composing influence one another in a production like this? And what does that require from both disciplines?
We then bring that interplay to life on stage. Composers Nahual Calzado Chaui and Sofia Dragt each create their own musical interpretation of the same scene, performed in both versions by actors Britte Scheltens and Marlijn van der Veen. The text and performance remain the same; only the music changes. What does that do to the meaning of a scene? Do actors perform differently when they hear different music? And what happens to a composition when it suddenly comes together with live performance?
One scene, two musical interpretations, and potentially two completely different stories.
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In collaboration with NORMA and ACT Acteursbelangen.
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