Boxing ring. Spotlight. Piano.
Two lightweight female warriors enter the ring, ready for the fight. Clenched fists, knees bent. 88 piano keys are attracting, provoking - tempting?
Bring it on! Claudette Verhulst and Elsbet Remijn, both graduated in 2014 Master Piano at Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague. In cooperation with director Jorinde Keesmaat they will perform a staged concert in boxing school Xena Sports about elegance and roughness, about contrasts and deceiving appearances. This concert is a blend of classic piano repertoire, combat sport and en songs.
The audience will find themselves in between punching bags and sweating people, while listening to dull thuds on punch cushions and Bach, Gubaidulina, Schubert, Mertens, and Naeff all the same, and truly vulnerable melody.
foto: Jenny Audring