Jerwood Hall
Tangram x SANSARA: Chronicle 时•录 (August 31)
LSO St Luke's Associate Artist
LSO St Luke's
The Concert
SANSARA choir
Tom Herring conductor
Alex Ho composer, director
Rockey Sun Keting composer, director, sound design
Ke Peng set and visual designer
Chang Meng visual designer
Claudia Huang producer
Yilin Wang original poetry translations
Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting additional text and dramaturgy
Programme to be confirmed.
Please note this performance may include loud sound effects, flashing or strobe‑style lighting and the use of haze.
Tickets
£20 (£15 Concession, £15 Under-30s)
+ £1.50 booking fee per transaction
A new, cutting-edge work celebrating the voices of six trailblazing women poets across a millennium of Chinese history through the power of choral theatre. Through war, exile, love, loss and displacement, their poems record not only personal emotion, but also the fragile continuity of culture and memory.
The Music
Composers Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting collaborate with the renowned author Yilin Wang to present a unique theatrical experience in which singers, barefoot, will spread charcoal on fabric creating a visually stunning artwork different for every iteration of the programme.
Tangram lead an interdisciplinary team to reimagine the emotional power of the collective sung voice. Melding newly composed choral music with staging and visual design, Chronicle 时•录 is a first collaboration between Tangram and SANSARA, one of the UK’s finest choirs described as ‘exquisite… a superb and sensitive vocal ensemble’ (Gramophone).
According to Rockey Sun Keting, ‘This project speaks to the core of who I am as an artist, someone drawn to the space between memory and history, language and sound. It’s a chance to bring ancient Eastern poetic traditions into dialogue with contemporary choral music, and to give voice to women across time through a modern lens.’
The Performers
Chronicle 时•录 is co-commissioned by SANSARA and Nederlands Kamerkoor, with support from Arts Council England, PRS Foundation, The Radcliffe Trust, The Leche Trust, Vaughan Williams Foundation, Cockayne Grants for the Arts, and Britten Pears Arts
Please note that special pricing exclusively applies to this August Bank Holiday performance.
More to Explore
Tangram, Our Associate Artists at LSO St Luke's
Over the last three years, the trailblazing collective Tangram have combined music, theatre and visual projections in their spectacular performances. Look back at their incredible work and find out more about what is coming next.
Booking
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