What happens if the Berlin breakdancers, Brazilian Street artist, and the Russian composer Mussorgsky meeting in a contemporary Museum? The answer is the “Flying Pictures”project.
Dancers from the Urban Dance group Flying Steps at the Premiere of their Show “Flying Pictures” at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin
How pictures would sound, would you be music? This question of the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky was already in 1874, in his ten-part Suite “pictures at an exhibition”. He was inspired by the drawings and the Aqua of his friend Viktor Hartmann, an artist, architect and Designer who created the works in his travels through several countries colours.
Around 150 years later, the German-Indian composer brothers, Vivan and Ketan Bhatti Mussorgsky’s picked up a score and adapted. From the recomposition of the urban dance group Flying Steps has developed a Show that Mussorgsky’s the question again: How would these images, if you would be turned into Dance Acts?
Dance with an oversized break-dancer-figure
The result with the high-sounding name of “Flying Pictures” was premiered in Berlin. In a place that is uncharted territory for Hip-Hop dancers, but not for images and exhibitions: Berlin’s “Hamburger Bahnhof”. The Museum of contemporary art, and served until 1884 when the railway station.
How street art came to the Museum
To combine the idea of urban dance and classical music in a Museum, realized the Flying Steps for the first time, back in 2010, when they performed their production of “Flying Bach” in the New national gallery in Berlin, a Museum of modernist architect Mies van der Rohe,.
“Unusual risks: this is what makes the museums to vibrant and creative institutions,” said Udo Kittelman, Director of the national gallery and the Hamburger Bahnhof responsible. The Show was the starting point of an international tour, made from the Berlin group, one of the world’s most successful Urban Dance Acts.
Giant reinforcements from Brazil
The gentlemen of the giants: the Brazilian artist Duo Osgemeos
In the project “Flying Pictures” it is not only the dancers that will bring Mussorgsky’s music in a visual Form. With the Brazilian Street-Art-artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, whose stage name is like a Label appears: “OSGEMEOS”. The “twins”, so the Translation, taxes, characters, and installations.
The Yellow man stands in Berlin-Kreuzberg
The brothers Hop scene in the 1980s in São Paulo’s Hip-and-large, were able to quickly identify with the project, the various influences are combined: “Our grandfather played classical music, our older brother was an artist,” the Pandolfos. “We were inspired both in the family as well as in the urban scene of São Paulo from different sides.”
For Flying Pictures developed OSGEMEOS visual references to the drawings of Viktor Hartman, built-in, but also all your own style in the Show.
Known to the brothers, especially with your “giants”, which they made as murals around the world, including the so-called “Yellow man” in Berlin, a huge Graffito in the district of Kreuzberg. To one of the characters and props they created for the Flying Pictures Show, the inflatable Version of a huge “B-Boy”: “We thought it would be nice to bring one of our giant to the Museum,” they said.
Gentle giant: The Brazilian artist Duo Osgemeos showed in Berlin a giant break dancer
Classical orchestra instead of a Boombox
B-Boying or B-Girling is the term that has replaced in the scene, the word “Breakdancing”, is recommended in the case of insiders, in order to discredit Mainstream media, so the criticism would have overused the term to describe lump all Hip-Hop-dance-styles.
In the case of Hip-Hop dancers in New York’s Bronx, a Boom Box delivery in the 1970s, usually in the Background. The Berlin-based Flying Steps, however, are accompanied by a Live orchestra, the Berlin Music Ensemble.
The Bhatti brothers added Mussorgsky’s composition, not just an electronic Beat; Vivan Bhatti describes the creative process as “override” and compares it with an ancient piece of writing, in which a manuscript page is scraped to be in order for another document to be re-used. “The Original is illuminated by these new sounds, which are played by an orchestra,” says the composer.
Ballet of the not-yet-hatched chickens: The Flying Steps to put Hartmann’s drawings from 1871 in the fact
For the Beats, the Bhatti’s of the techniques of avant-garde music of the 20th century. Century inspired, with a strange Tuba-game turned into a bass drum or the loop of a plucked violin string in an additional rhythm layer. Daniel mandolin, alias Mando Beatbox was also impressive rhythms of the Show. His Beats are so colorful that you paint, in fact, images.
An international force
The Flying Steps dancers, the name of the troupe, they seem to defy gravity, as they whirl through the air. And as the Creator of the production, the eight dancers of the Show, the international roots – in Siberia, Brazil, Macedonia or Ethiopia.
The avant-garde approach of the composer could give a false impression; but the production is quite suitable for mass production, and should appeal to people of all ages. There is music, dance and Street Art, there is no voice know barriers, it should also open the new Show by the Flying Steps international doors. And the “Flying Pictures” will certainly help, the older Generation, the urban art and the young to bring the works of the Russian composer Mussorgsky in more detail.
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicFigurines of the great gate of Kiev
Mussorgsky wrote his piano works after he had seen an exhibition of his painter friend Victor Hartmann, whom he admired very much. It is Mussorgsky was not the exact musical representation of the images but the impressions left by the deceased friend for him. Accurate images of the music passages. Kandinsky loved music.
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicThe great gate of Kiev
In 2016, the art world celebrated the 150. Birthday of the Russian painter In Kandinsky. A reason to get the stage designs of his theatre project “pictures at an exhibition” according to Dessau, where the work in 1928, was premiered. The images were created after the eponymous piano cycle of the composer Modest Mussorgsky.
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicGnomus
The template for “Gnomus” was a watercolor of Hartmann, this shows a dwarf, accompanied by stumbles on his “little legs with big, clumsy steps.” The stage image of Kandinsky recalled. The art historian Ludwig Grote describes a horizontal strip that lights up, before vertical stripes and a small black figure appear.
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicCatacombae
Musically, Catacombae, “” a dialogue between Mussorgsky and his deceased friend Hartmann. The art historian Ludwig Grote experienced Kandinsky’s implementation on the stage rather sober: “white and green Background. In the order according to your size the shapes to build, from the left and the right moves, until finally, the great arch of the top to drop.”
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicThe hut of Baba Yaga
In the “Anhalter Anzeiger” was read for the premiere: “A mysterious structure stands rigidly in front of us, a pointer to turns, shades of color lights: green and yellow – the lights on the sides start again wild kindling: a tremendous voltage attracts and torments at the same time, the spectators – it is the ancient mystery, with the for our fantasy, witches and sorceresses are surrounded.”
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicBydlo
Kandinsky’s Director’s statement to this picture reads: “all the figures have to appear unmateriell and Indefinite hovering.” The circles are reminiscent of the wheels of a cart. Pulled by an ox, had Mussorgsky’s such a ladder truck in front of eyes, when he composed the piece.
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicThe market place of Limoges
Kandinsky’s wife Nina tells of her husband’s work: “He possessed the rare gift of, the world of his images, with all their colors and shapes, just imagine how he kept it then later on the canvas. His ideas came to him like snapshots, which he saw in a state of enlightenment flash to fix immediately in small inconspicuous sketches was looking for.”
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Kandinsky, Mussorgsky: art meets musicThe Master’s House
The impulse for Kandinsky’s stage composition of Georg Hartmann, the Director of the Friedrich theatre in Dessau. During a visit to the Studio of Kandinsky were he noticed some of his compositions, “which appeared in line and color in the greatest force, in their dramatic contrast as created for the stage.” The exhibition in the masters ‘ house in Dessau is still up to the 22. To see may.