Max Richter - Didem Coskunseven - Michiel Vandevelde - Jolente De Maeyer - BRYGGEN – Bruges Strings — four seasons changed
About the event
Like the seasons that change and return, even the classics can be transformed through new readings. In this choreographic concert, the boundaries between music and dance dissolve, adding a new layer to Max Richter’s celebrated 2012 reinterpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: a score that does not rewrite the original, but passes through it, fragments it, and recomposes it, amplifying the perception of time and memory. The music is performed entirely from memory by the musicians of BRYGGEN, led by violinist Jolente De Maeyer, who move through the stage space like a collective organism, following continuous and hypnotic trajectories.
A solitary dancer weaves among them, in constant dialogue with the music: at times contradicting it, at times pushing it toward new intensities. Choreographer Michiel Vandevelde translates Richter’s compositional logic into movement, building a bridge between Baroque and contemporary, between repetition and variation, between structure and trance. Each season is linked to a genealogy of dance (from Isadora Duncan to Pina Bausch), while electronic prologue and epilogue by Didem Coskunseven frame the cycle as a ritual of birth, death, and rebirth. The result is an immersive experience that reinvents the concert as a living, physical, and continuously mutating space.
