Calder Moves (2023)

A Co-Production of the Flex Ensemble (Piano Quartet, Hannover, Germany) and Tom Pearson (Global Performance Studio/Third Rail Projects, New York)

Premiering at the Sprengel Museum Calder Saal, Hannover, Germany, December 9 & 10, 2023.
U.S. Tour TBA

About Calder Moves

Combining the aesthetics of curiosity, whimsy, and chance that are at the heart of artworks by Alexander Calder and musically embodied in the compositions of John Cage, Witold Lutosławski, and Caroline Shaw we bring you CALDER MOVES, a new immersive work for an activated audience.

Calder Moves makes a unique entry into the experiential canon in the way it centers musicians as immersive performers, giving audiences alternative invitations to participate and co-create while the artwork lends both a spectacle and framework that asks audiences not only to notice, but to play—visually, sonically, and somatically—within the purposeful wonder of the work.

Collaborating artists include Flex Ensemble (piano quartet, Hannover), which consists of Kana Sugimura (violin), Anna Szulc (viola), Martha Bijlsma (cello), and Johannes Nies (piano), Tom Pearson (director, choreographer, New York), with Lisa Werhahn (violin), Simon Kluth (performer), Marissa Nielsen-Pincus (performer), and a new original composition for the Flex Ensemble by Brigitta Muntendorf (composer, Hamburg).

Calder Moves is made specifically for the Calder Saal of the Sprengel Museum, where the performance takes place in a hall of Calder's mobiles.

Flex Ensemble

Photo by Zuzanna Specjal
Flex Ensemble

Photo by Zuzanna Specjal
Flex Ensemble

Photo by Zuzanna Specjal
Flex Ensemble

Photo by Zuzanna Specjal
Flex Ensemble

Photo by Zuzanna Specjal
Flex Ensemble

Photo by Zuzanna Specjal

SCHEDULE & TICKET RESERVATIONS

Sprengel Museum Calder Saal
Kurt-Schwitters-Platz, Hannover, Niedersachsen 30169
December 9, 2023, 4 PM
December 10, 2023, 3 PM & 6 PM

Reservations

Pay What You Can
(Guide Value: € 20)
Limited Ticket Reservations Available

To learn more about Calder Moves and how you can support our efforts to bring the project to the United States in 2024/2025, please email info@thirdrailprojects.com

Credits

A Co-Production of the Flex Ensemble (Piano Quartet, Hannover, Germany)
and Tom Pearson (Global Performance Studio/Third Rail Projects, New York)

Calder Moves

Premiering at the Sprengel Museum Calder Saal, Hannover, Germany

Creative Team

Piano Quartet + Performance: Flex Ensemble
Kana Sugimura, Anna Szulc, Martha Bijlsma, Johannes Nies

Violin + Performance: Lisa Werhahn

Collaborating Artists for Movement and Performance Material + Performance:

Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Simon Kluth

New Original Composition for the Flex Ensemble: Brigitta Muntendorf

Director/Choreographer: Tom Pearson

Musical Program:

Witold Lutosławski – String Quartet (1964)
John Cage – Suite for toy piano & 5”
Caroline Shaw – Limestone & Felt for viola and cello
Brigitta Muntendorf – Matter of Strain

Project Support

Calder Moves is a collaborative project conceived, organized, and produced by Tom Pearson (Global Performance Studio/Third Rail Projects, New York) and Flex Ensemble (Piano Quartet, Hannover, Germany). Calder Moves is supported by Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur Niedersachsen, NDR Musikförderung, Klosterkammer Hannover, Stiftung Niedersachsen and Landeshauptstadt Hannover Kulturbüro and is a cooperation with the Sprengel Museum, Hannover. Calder Moves has received support in the U.S. from private donors through Third Rail Projects, with special thanks to Judy Gluckstern and Peter Trevisani.

Calder Moves is also supported administratively by Cutting Edge Kultur gUG and by Ransom Poet LLC.