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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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