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Wh o Ki ll e d Co ck Ro bi n?
A boy's i nit iat ion th rou gh fant a sy an d ni gh tmar e
Music theatre by Joanna Dudley, Rufus Didwiszus and the Capilla Flamenca
Produced by BINDER + PARTNER BERLIN
WED December 12, 2007, 20 h
Concertgebouw Brugge
World première in the cause of DecemberDance 07
(Artistic director: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
FRI December 14, 2007, 21 h
Ballhaus Naunyn Berlin, preview
SAT December 15, 2007, 20 h
Ballhaus Naunyn Berlin, première – SA VE THE DA TE!
SUN December 16, 2007, 15 h and 20 h
Ballhaus Naunyn Berlin
Creation, vocal, performance
Joanna Dudley
Creation, design
Rufus Didwiszus
Video artist
Samuel Dématraz
Musical research, musical director
Dirk Snellings
Music, performance
Capilla Flamenca
Who Kille d Co ck Robi n? is a bizarre and poetic journey of initiation, children's fantasy and dark nightmare. The
performance of Joanna Dudley and Rufus Didwiszus reveals scenes of dark beauty and leads the audience into a
surreal world of ritual and ceremony, to the accompaniment of Ars Nova music, a 14th century genre of vocal music,
masterfully adapted by the renowned vocal and instrumental ensemble Capilla Flamenca.
This is the story of a fat little boy (Joanna Dudley) who one evening leaves the safety of his home to set out on a
journey. On the way he meets six bearded guardians (Capilla Flamenca). Drawn to these men, the boy entrusts
himself to the care of this strict community. A journey of transformation begins, accompanied by expressive singing
and the video compositions of Swiss artist Samuel Dématraz, whose works conjure up an atmosphere of disquieting,
dark beauty.
Seductive and powerful, W ho Kille d Co ck Robi n? explores traditional narratives, alternating between animism,
transitional rites and fantasy, and in doing so continually blurs the border between reality and fiction. Wh o Kill ed
Cock Robi n? is the first joint production between Joanna Dudley, Rufus Didwiszus and Capilla Flamenca since the
great success of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Foi.
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Bass
Dirk Snellings
Countertenor
Marnix De Cat
Tenor
Tore Denys
Baritone
Lieven Termont
Viol/Fiddle
Liam Fennelly
Lute
Floris De Rycker
Arrangement and libretto of the
Grahame Dudley
Song "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
Design costumes
Ulrike Gutbrod
for Joanna Dudley
Artistic team:
Joanna Du dley studied music at the Adelaide Conservatorium, Australia, and the Sweelink Conservatorium in the
Netherlands. She also studied traditional Japanese music and theatre in Japan and traditional dance and music in
Java. While living in Berlin, she worked as a guest on numerous projects at the Schaubühne Theatre, including her
solo show He Taught Me to Yodel (2002), My Dearest My Fairest (2000) by and with Joanna and Juan Kruz Garaio de
Esnaola and colours may fade with friction read instructions carefully store in a cool and dry place no side effects
(2004), in which Joanna once again collaborated with Esnaola and set designer Rufus Didwiszus. She has toured the
world with her work. Joanna Dudley also co-created and performed in Foi, choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
with Les Ballets C de la B. For this piece she won the award for the best actress in a dance piece from the Dance
International Magazine. Her sound installation Tom's Song was exhibited as part of the Sonambiente Festival in
Berlin 2006. Her most recent work, The Scorpionfish, is a solo performance, again in collaboration with Rufus
Didwiszus. www.joannadudley.de
Ruf us Di dwis zus has worked at the Münchner Kammerspiele with Christian Stückl, the Baracke DT and the
Schaubühne Theatre in Berlin with Thomas Ostermeier, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Salzburg Festival and the
Edinburgh Festival. He has also created sets for Tom Kühnel at the TAT-Frankfurt, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Les
Ballets C de la B, Belgium, and at the Royal Dramaten in Stockholm for Stefan Larsson. In 2004/2005 he co-created
and designed the set for colours may fade with friction read instructions carefully store in a cool and dry place no
side effects with Joanna Dudley and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola. In 2006, Didwiszus co-created and designed
The Scorpionfish, a joint project with Joanna Dudley.
The vocal and instrumental ensemble Ca pilla Flamen ca takes its name from the choir of the court chapel of
Emperor Charles V. When Charles left the Low Countries for Spain in 1517, he took his best musicians with him to
accompany him as a “living polyphony”. Today’s Capilla Flamenca recruits its specialized musicians mainly from
Flanders and thus aims to breathe new life into the unique sound of this wonderful 14th - 16th century music in all
its authenticity. Drawing on this polyphonic repertoire, Dirk Snellings creates unique and multi-dimensional
programmes. The integration of different artistic disciplines produces programmes of additional value for today’s
cultural scene. The Capilla Flamenca's transparent polyphonic sound-image originates from the creative interaction
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between the musicians. This process demands an acute awareness of the historical, poetical and technical aspects
of polyphonic music. The Capilla Flamenca has won prestigious international awards such as “Il Filarmonico”, which
has also been awarded to artists like Pierre Boulez, Zubin Metha and Oliver Messiaen, for both the high artistic value
of their live performances and CDs and the cultural value of their musicological research. The Capilla Flamenca has
formed strong ties with Joanna Dudley as a result of their cooperation on the production Foi by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
and Les Ballets C de la B, 2003, which won acclaim from both critics and the public. www.capilla.be
Samuel Démat raz lives and works in Switzerland. In 2005, he graduated from the ECAV Ecole cantonale d`art du
Valais in Sierre, where he specialized in video and photo art. Since then he has developed numerous projects in the
area of video art and worked on joint interdisciplinary projects with artists such as Ingrid Wildi, Dorothy Kreuzfeld,
Jose Davilla and John Hilliard. Samuel Dématraz has presented his video clips and films, which are often
characterized by mosaic-like, visual structures and a disturbingly formalistic and fragmentary vividness, in various
exhibitory contexts, including the Ferm-Asile Sion 2006, the National Versicherung Basle 2006, Mulhouse 2007 and
the Plattform 07 in Zurich.
Grahame D udle y studied composition in Australia with Peter Maxwell Davies and later moved to London to study
conducting with Pierre Boulez. There, he became director of music at the Cockpit Experimental Arts Centre, where
he created the ensemble Music Plus which included musicians such as Oliver Knussen, Simon Bainbridge and Irvine
Arditti. (They performed contemporary English works and gave the first UK performances of Stockhausen, Kagel and
Cage.) Since his return to Australia, where he teaches composition at the University of Adelaide, Grahame has
played a major role in the development of new music ensembles, including Lights and The Elder New Music. His
music theatre works and operas include The Snow Queen, which was performed this year by the Victorian State
Opera, Australia. He has also been closely involved with the Montreal-based Nouvel Ensemble Modern .
The pr od uce r:
The main focus of BI NDE R + PA RTNE R BE RLI N’s activities under the direction of Adolphe Binder is international
productions and artistic and strategic counselling. As a team of consultants it provides new concepts for artistic
enterprises ranging from small avant-garde projects to large cross-genre projects and specialises in the creative
support and realization of performance arts, from performance to dance and music theatre.
The conceptual design of dramatic works as well as providing analysis and professional strategic and artistic advice
on program planning, differentiation and support through customised communication concepts or personal
coaching also belong to our area of expertise. www.bp-berlin.com.
Who Kille d Co ck Robi n?
Produced by Binder + Partner Berlin, (www.bp-berlin.com).
Co-produced by Capilla Flamenca (www.capilla.be),
Concertgebouw Brugge and DecemberDance07 (www.concertgebouw.be / www.decemberdance.be).
With the kind support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, ECAV Ecole cantonal d`arts Sierre, the Flemish Government
Brugge, Ballhaus Naunynstraße and papagena Kartenvertrieb.
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Infos and Onlinetickets are available at www.ballhausnaunyn.de, www.bp-berlin.com and www.joannadudley.de