Compagnie La Tempête: Obsession

Obsession, in all its enveloping and all-encompassing forms, is explored by La Tempête in this towering performance of light, music and movement.

La Tempête and its founder Simon-Pierre Bestion are a vocal and instrumental ensemble driven to explore highly personal and deeply committed works. Their latest venture explores obsession in its manifold forms - from driving force, to hallucinatory experience, to repetitive gesture - through the music of great contemporary figures Arvo Pärt, Jehan Alain and Philip Glass.

Both musical and visual, this beautifully-staged performance will transform the Barbican stage into an ever-changing scene of towers of light, movement and texture. Enveloping audiences visually and aurally in a spectacular examination of the physical and immediate experience of sound, this is a tribute to obsession through transformation.

Performers

Compagnie La Tempête

Programme

Arvo Pärt Miserere
Philip Glass (orch. Simon-Pierre Bestion) Selections from 1000 Airplanes on the Roof:
1. 1000 Airplanes on the Roof 5. Screens of Memory 8. Return to the Hive9. Three Truths 10. The Encounter
Arvo Pärt Excerpts from Triodion: Ode 1 “O Jesus the Son of God, Have Mercy upon Us”, Ode 3 “O Holy Saint Nicholas, Pray to God for Us”
Jehan Alain (orch. Simon-Pierre Bestion) Trois Danses:I. Joies - II. Deuil - III. Luttes