Mark Tompkins et le compositeur Miquel Bernat proposent trois performances improvisées en site spécifique de IN C de Terry Riley, dans le cadre de l’exposition « COLLABORATION /IMPROVISATION » de la Fondation Serralves à Porto et du « Circular Performing Arts Festival » de l'association culturelle Circular.
Extraits du programme : « In this work, the improvisation process begins with the choice of the instruments to play. Our only constraint - beyond the score itself – will be the prior decision concerning the approximate duration of the performance. Everything else will be left to the performers’ criteria (…) »
Miquel Bernat
« The main challenge we’ll face is knowing how to navigate through the musical score and how to transpose it to an equally open dance score. Each show will be ‘site-specific’. Therefore our approach must necessarily be adapted to the circumstances, wherein the choreography will be established on the basis of tasks, actions, timings and spatialisations […] ».
Mark Tompkins