Spaceship Ensemble, who are doing a residency at Gaudeamus this year, present a musical spectacle inspired by A Treatise On Evolution by one of Holland’s most iconic scientists, the theoretical physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft. A series of drawings of futuristic creatures that show how animals could evolve. In a musical programme reminiscent of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Le Carnaval des Animaux, the ensemble plays a series of short pieces each of which depicts one of ‘t Hooft’s creatures.
The Spaceship residency is made possible by the Performing Arts Fund NL.
PROGRAMME
Julian Maple-Oliveira – Wingboat Shark
Dan Ehrlich – Navigator Binoculatus
Giovanni Porfirio – Rotipios Vacuator
Leo Lehtinen – Skigligans Solelunettata
Piyawat Louilarpprasert – Hengelspin
Piyawat Louilarpprasert – Rolla Bolla
Pelicanus Optimistus – Julian Maple-Oliveira
Ho-Chi So – Sus Riolus
Piyawat Louilarpprasert – Gryps Autostrada
Mari Mako – Pluto-Pluto
Gabriel Francisco Lemos – Plasticophagus Edulis
Dan Ehrlich – Carausius Corrodus
Leo Lehtinen – Bacchus Deliriosu
Flo Menezes – Zweige und Wurzel (Woestijnpijpleidingboompjes)
Dan Ehrlich – Dactylopter Minimus
Piyawat Louilarpprasert – Limaniaa Mysteriosa
Julian Maple-Oliveira – Sepia Explosiva
Leo Lehtinen – Moonsquid