In Storm, three artistic voices meet: dance company OFFprojects, the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw and British multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings. Hutchings is regarded as a key figure in the renewal of London jazz. He connects musical traditions and is known for his rhythmic intensity. For this interdisciplinary work, he wrote music in which structure and improvisation constantly push against each other’s boundaries.

Choreographer Amos Ben-Tal and Hutchings take minimalist structures and pattern music as their starting point. The dance company and the orchestra alternate tightly written passages with free improvisation, so no two performances are the same. In this way, Storm shows where contemporary dance and jazz meet, and how they sharpen each other.

Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw, OFFprojects dance, Amos Ben-Tal choreography,