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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Music:
John Cage – In A Landscape
John Cage – Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions
John Cage – Nocturne
John Cage – Living Room Music
John Cage – Clarinet Sonata
John Cage – Dream
Emile Daems – Nothing happens, twice
Text:
Stan Martens & Ferre Vuye – Nothing happens, twice
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Concept: Emile Souvagie (I SOLISTI NextGeneration Artist), Ferre Vuye en Stan Martens
Text and acting: Ferre Vuye and Stan Martens
Composition: Emile Daems (creation)Production: I SOLISTI