NextDoors
NextDoors is a multidisciplinary project week in which all Conservatoire students participate in sessions, workshops and projects, accompanied by artists from the various performing disciplines. A number of projects and performance moments are open to the public. Do not expect finished performances and concerts, however, but the result of a week of experimentation and collaboration.
Public programme
Tuesday // 10:15h // lecture (ENG) // Victoria Pavlou - Yellow Hall
This lecture by Victoria Pavlou examines how two European-funded projects demonstrate the transformative power of socially engaged arts education in fostering sustainability and social change through interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration.
Tuesday // 14:00 // lecture (ENG) // Can Boyan // Yellow Hall
Beyond Gaze explores touch as an artistic medium, highlighting its potential to bridge differences and empower diverse individuals through creative, touch-led strategies and dramatic inquiry.
Tuesday // 21:00 // Jazz Jam // Club Cons
Wednesday // 4pm // performance moment // Gamelan Workshop // Black Hall
Concert on authentic Indonesian gamelan instruments, led by Krishna Sutedja and Adilia Yip. In collaboration with the Indonesian Embassy.
Thursday // 8pm // Performance // Breathing Project // Rataplan, Borgerhout
Jazz students from the Antwerp Conservatoire show the best of themselves after two weeks of coaching and rehearsal with an established jazz musician. In February, that's Ben Sluijs. He joins forces with Media, writing and performance art students, led by Maud Vanhauwaert.
Friday // 11:00am & 3:30pm // performance moments // Jazz combos // Classroom 228
Performance moment themed ensembles BIP exchange, in which students and teachers from conservatoires in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Cologne inspire each other for a week.
Friday // 15:00 // open walk performance moments // gathering point Witte Foyer
On Friday afternoon we organise a walk along some performance moments of NextDoors projects
Friday // 15:00 // performance moment // Calling Songs // Class room 435
In Calling Songs, Johannes Westendorp researches whether and how insect and amphibian choirs can be integrated into concert practice. To this end, in collaboration with Pieter Verhees and the musicians of Zwerm, he has built a sound installation consisting of eight speakers adapted to the landscape that can project their sound 360° across the venue. In the lecture performance for Next Doors, Johannes will tell about the course of his research and demonstrate part of the installation.