Hobbyist 2nd period
stage performance
- Collaboration vzw Wolvin+ vzw Rosas
Zita Swoon creates more space for new experiments and introduces a new pianist.
With Dancing with the Sound Hobbyist, Zita Swoon once more explored a new path. Together with dancer and choreographer Simon Mayer and coach Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker of dance ensemble Rosas, Stef Kamil Carlens created a performance that takes the audience on a trip through the world of Zita Swoon. Mayer effortlessly finds his place among the members of the band. Wayward instrumentals alternate with melancholy songs, stirring percussion and short intimate passages. Dancing with the Sound Hobbyist thus becomes a sophisticated dialogue between movement and sound, an adventurous dance trip through the cosmopolitan musical universe of Zita Swoon.
“Dancing with the sound hobbyist thus becomes a masterly dialogue between movement and sound, an adventurous dance trip through the cosmopolitan music world of Zita Swoon” (Kaaitheater, Brussels BE)
“Dancing with the sound hobbyist is an original-concert, a dialog between energy and emotion” (ck*cultuurcentrum, Kortrijk BE)
“Zita Swoon is a collective that re-invents itself frequently and drifts through intuition and experiment. What distinct them from other music bands is their connection with theatre, visual arts, dance and literature. They proved this already in the past with its unique dance production Plage Tattoo/Circumstances with Les Ballets C de la B. and with the sound track of the film Sunrise from F.W. Murnau” (Melkweg Rabozaal, Amsterdam NL)
Some fragments about our lives and our loves, our speed and wars.
“After I’m gone
From the great Babylon
Don’t say we never took the time
We just kept moving on”
“After I’m gone
Sing a Hallelujah
I’m so glad I knew ya
Sing a little song”
(From after I’m Gone)
“I’m a sick and tired of shedding tears
I’m a sick and tired of chewing on the same old fears
I spread my wings and fly away
I’m a leaving my cage in the land of pain
I had to leave this town I won’t let my soul be betrayed”
(From Leave the town)
“We all got our belly's full
Sleeping like a prince beneath a blanket of wool
Self-defense is only natural
But maybe there's a few dirty tricks we pulled
There’s a war in the town where we used to work
The whole damn’ country has gone berserk
There’s killing and raping by a bunch of young Turks
A paradise turned into hell on earth
A lot of people left their homes and are on the run
Nobody remembers how this war begun
Just trying to survive under the barrel of a gun
And when the race is run we’ll be”
(From Beautiful people)
“I rode a million miles at the speed of light
Then started thinking of the steak I didn’t finish last night
My legs got tired and enough I roamed
I turned my bike around and made my way back home”
(From Rumble factories)
