InterSpace - Uranus's second castration

"Uranus's second castration: piece for a dancing flutist", by Brice Catherin, Melissa Garcia Carro and Eva Stavrou

Performance and presentation of the creative process by Eva Stavrou

Tuesday, 9th of April 2019, 20:00, Dancehouse Lefkosia
Free entrance

Ο Δεύτερος Ευνουχισμός του Ουρανού (The second Castration of Uranus) is a composition for one flutist moving in space while playing. It is to be performed as a pagan ritual. Sound and movement must constantly receive the care proper to an ancestral ceremony.

Sounds and movements are not synchronized as they happen, but conceived independently of each other. The performer must embrace the fact that some movements, torsions in particular, will have an influence on her sound. There is a permanent tension between the “pure” and controlled sound of the flute, and its unavoidable distortions due to certain movements and positions.

The composition is in open form – it is only completed by the performer’s interpretation, the space, its acoustics and the audience. Each time it is performed is therefore unique.