Kites (music for a performance by Roshanak Morrowatian), by Rutger Zuydervelt

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Kites (music for a performance by Roshanak Morrowatian)

by Rutger Zuydervelt

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releases May 9, 2024

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1.	Bags
2.	Places (feat. Roshanak Morrowatian)
3.	Hops & Games 04:44 video	buy track
4.	Traces
5.	Obsolete Veil 09:18	buy track
6.	Breath
7.	Landscaping

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Note: all profit from the cd and download will be donated to Dutch Performing Arts, a campaign for Gaza Children.
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By now I’ve done various other projects with Roshanak Morrowatian, but Kites was the first one, and it holds a special place in my heart. So I’m glad the score is now available as an album.

The Kites performance deals with the question “What is it like to have to flee your homeland at a young age and grow up in an asylum seekers’ centre, in a ‘limbo’ between past and future?” It’s a solo dance piece, based on Roshanak’s own experiences of being on the run and arriving in a new, unfamiliar country. The subject is addressed in poetic, but at times also powerfully insistent and even euphoric ways, strengthened by visual projections and spoken texts.

Working with Roshanak and the rest of the team was a joy. Witnessing the choreography taking shape as the music was being (re)built and refined was fantastic, but the highlight was Roshanak’s parents visiting me, to hand me an old cassette with Iranian hit songs that the family used to play. There’s various snippets of the tape woven into the Kites music, which combines my usual abstract electronic sound world with Persian influences (without sounding too Fourth World-ish, I hope).

Of course you’re missing Roshanak’s strong performance, and Laisvie Andrea Ochoa Gaevska’s mesmerizing video projections, but I hope the music itself will transport you to intriguing places nonetheless.

Rutger Zuydervelt, February 2023
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Kites premiered at Nederlandse Dansdagen, Maastricht (NL), 2021

More info: whttps://www.rover.company/en/kites-2/
Trailer: vimeo.com/632858776
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releases May 9, 2024

Music by Rutger Zuydervelt, 2020/2021
Words and voice on Places by Roshanak Morrowatian
Composed for Kites, an interdisciplinary performance by Roshanak Morrowatian / Rover

Mastered by Marlon Wolterink at White Noise Studio
Cover photo by Afagh Morrowatian

Special thanks to Mahnaz Heygharnejadi and Abbas Morrowatian
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Kites is a production of SALLY Dance Company Maastricht in coproduction with Nederlandse Dansdagen, Rover, schrit_tmacher, and VIA ZUID – Talent Development Performing Arts Limburg.
Supported by Het Cultuurfonds, VSB Fonds, Brand Cultuurfonds, Elisabeth Strouven Fonds, We Are Public Fonds, and NORMA corona fonds.

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