Pléïades, in absentia
Overview
Intro
Eklekto and La Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker present "Pléïades, in absentia", a show to be discovered from May 27 to 31, 2026 at the Pavillon ADC, Geneva.
Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker and Eklekto join forces around an emblematic work: "Pléïades" by Iannis Xenakis, a creator fascinated by mathematics and its links with space.
The avant-garde composer describes this piece for six percussionists as a polyrhythm based on repetition, transformation, superposition and random variation.
Written in 1978, "Pléïades" (40 minutes) deploys a great diversity of sound textures. It is based on the principles of periodicity, duplication and recurrence, producing a complex polyrhythm where phase shifts produce a veritable sonic odyssey. The work is divided into four parts, each defined by the nature of the instruments: from keyboards (vibraphone, xylophones, xylomarimba, marimba), to skins (bongos, tumbas, toms, timpani, bass drum), from metals (sixxens, an instrument invented by Xenakis especially for this piece, with unprecedented sonorities) to mixtures of the three families.
To enter this powerful journey with dance, choreographer Cindy Van Acker undertakes a meticulous exploration of the profound relationship between movement and music. It's an ultra-demanding study, since the score forces this relationship to be constantly challenged, shifted, questioned and reinvented. As is often the case, the starting point for this research is an intuition: to confront the universe of Xenakis, you have to defy the impossible.
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| Contact address |
Nathalie Baranger
Eklekto Geneva Percussion Center Percussion contemporaine Rue de la Coulouvrenière 8 1204 Genève 022 329 85 55 admin@eklekto.ch |
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| Location |
Pavillon ADC Place Beatriz-Consuelo 1206 Genève Switzerland |
| Event Homepage | https://eklekto.ch |
| Price |
From CHF 8 to CHF 25
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Event dates
- 27 May 2026
- 28 May 2026
- 29 May 2026
- 30 May 2026
- 31 May 2026
Eklekto Geneva Percussion Center Rue de la Coulouvrenière 8 CH-1204 Geneva Phone +41 22 329 85 55