Nothing happens, twice
© Annik Laruelle
In 1953, Cage opened the piano but decided not to touch a single key. That same year, Beckett had four actors enter the stage to have them wait for something that is yet to come. Both broke with the legacy of their respective art forms and, for the first time, made emptiness a protagonist.
In Nothing happens, twice, two actors and three musicians wonder why both seem to come to a standstill simultaneously and what that tells us about our world. As young artists in an era of new convulsions, they look at the silence between the words, the space between the notes, the emptiness, and what hides there.
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An I SOLISTI ACADEMY production
Concept: Emile Souvagie (I SOLISTI NextGeneration Artist), Ferre Vuye and Stan Martens
Text and acting: Ferre Vuye and Stan Martens
Music: commissioned creation by Emile Daems, music by John Cage