Name: Breath Fauna
Start: 2023-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Lauba – People And Art House

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Music Biennale Zagreb

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Elly Bašić Music School

Instrumentalist

Lovro Merčep

Saxophone

Singer

Alto Saxophone

Breath Fauna

Zagreb

Croatia

Lauba – People And Art House

Breath Fauna: La Ultima Tanda Majurec (+3 More)

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Private

La Ultima Tanda

Touch

Dialogue of the double shadow

Sequenza VII

Samabedona Majumder

Approved

LAUBA – people and art house will welcome two artists, saxophonist Lovro Merčep and dancer and choreographer Petra Hrašćanec, to its impressive hall for a performance in which sound and movement intertwine in a special way. You may know Lovro Merčep as a regular in the MBZ’s programs, as well as the winner of many awards, performer in numerous ensembles, promotor of contemporary Croatian music and teacher at the Elly Bašić Music School, whereas Petra Hrašćanec is, among others, founder and artistic director of the 21:21 organization and Associate Professor in the Department of Dance of the Academy of Dramatic Arts, the University of Zagreb. As this performer and choreographer will point out, this is a unique performance in which dance is not a reaction to music but an integral part of it. This is therefore a sort of a micro-musical-stage piece as evidenced by the structure of the score itself or the title of the individual compositions on the program, but is fully formed in terms of their contextualization, i.e. their subsequent conceptualization.

The presentation will feature two first performances of well-known regional composers, Sanda Majurec and David Mastikosa, and compositions by great composers Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez (a piece dedicated to Berio). Majurec and Mastikosa share views on the forms and the relationships within a piece of music, which acquire almost physical qualities, for example in the opus of Sanda Majurec, as noted by composer and musicologist Tomislav Oliver. Majurec’s work implies a carefully thought-out musical dramaturgy, while Mastikosa, literally, skillfully writes for theater and film—together announcing a strong foundation for the dramaturgical shaping of the stage performance of Merčep and Hrašćanec. Boulez’s composition, on the other hand, refers entirely to the “double shadow” segment from Paul Claudel’s play, whereas in his virtuoso piece Berio deliberately oscillates between polyphonic and harmonic modes of presentation and two intonation frameworks. Although there are only two performers, the tone, body and power of the interpretation will provoke the huge performance space and attempt to embody (and “ensound”) the mentioned dual structures and physical dramaturgical lines.

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Breath Fauna by Majurec, Mastikosa, Boulez, Berio, From (2023/2023), Lauba – People And Art House, Zagreb, Croatia

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