How do we experience music when we cannot hear it? And how can movement, the body and sight open new pathways into Beethoven’s musical world?

In SANS, Beethoven’s monumental Grosse Fuge meets a new choreography by Sølvi Edvardsen, created for Deaf performing artist Ipek D. Mehlum and the Engegård Quartet. Through music and movement, the performance explores communication and the different ways in which we experience music.

Beethoven composed the Grosse Fuge at a time when he had himself lost his hearing. The music is fierce, complex and uncompromising — a work that challenged his contemporaries and can still astonish us today.

A world premiere that invites us to experience Beethoven with new eyes and ears.

Programme

SANS — World Premiere

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Grosse Fuge in B-flat major, Op. 133

Choreography: Sølvi Edvardsen

Ipek D. Mehlum, performing artist
Engegård Quartet