Year: 2017

On September 10th Nadar presents Lesaserma Pokhunakhis at Gogolfest in Kiev.

Lesaserma Pokhunakis:

Four young, multitalented composers tell the exceptional life story of Lesaserma Pokhunakhis (1925-1983). After fleeing from the Greek military junta in 1967 – in which her husband died – she secretly worked in Yerbogachen (Russia) on her magnum opus ‘Bourozyom’ (‘the brown soil’). Her 50.000 handwritten pages of scientific findings, were an unexpected legacy from an introvert baker’s wife who corresponded with Iannis Xenakis and had a remarkable influence on Marina Abramovic her ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’.

Sergey Khismatov, Alexander Khubeev, Alex Nadzharov and Marina Poleukhina are inspired by her lifework, and together create a remarkable, unsettling and fascinating performance about the work of a forgotten woman, in which nothing is what it seems. Lesaerma Pokhunakhis is produced by Ultima Oslo, Concertgebouw Brugge and Nadar.

From August 20 until August 24, Nadar ensemble organizes its first International Summer School for Composers and Sound Artists. Out of more than two dozen applicants, these four were selected:

During this 5-day workshop, they will will work with the musicians, the sound engineer and the scenographer of the ensemble, as well as with theatre technicians from deSingel and three invited composers/sound artists (Cathy Van Eck, Stefan Prins & Daan Janssens) in developing and workshopping a new work.