Letter Piece Company

LPC premiers A to Zzz at Vooruit on Feb 16 and 17!

2012-01-12T07:25:00.001-08:00

A to Zzz is an hour-long work for five performers featuring physical action, music, text and light design

FULL EVENT DETAILS HERE
This event is part of the Koplopers series and so tickets are only €5.

The title announces the concept: A to Zzz moves through the alphabet, with each letter representing something. That something might be a person (F = Freddy Mercury), a topic (P = positions in space) or concept (O = outside). The passage through the alphabet provides a scaffold, a solid reference point, for an otherwise unpredictable journey full of constant surprise, imagination, digressions and ruptures!
The work draws on a broad and unexpected range of everyday, popular and art culture: the movement of modern dance, orchestral conductors, cinematic monsters, and everyday activities; the music/sound of abstract textures, field recordings and psychedelic rock; and the lighting of the office, street light and bedside lamp.

The work is co-produced by Vooruit, Concertgebouw Brugge and we are also supported by the Brussels based artslab Pianofabriek and the Flemish Community

Further performances scheduled for:
Concertgebouw Brugge
STUK (Leuven) as part of the 2012 Transit festival

Last at Chisenhale and Soundwaves

2011-06-20T10:56:00.000-07:00

LPC played the Letter Pieces Quartets show it devised for the 2010 Transit & Huddersfield festivals in July in London and Brighton.

Described as ‘duet-Tourettes', Letter Piece Company brings together ideas and elements from contemporary music, dance and theatre in genre defying performance pieces. With shifting combinations of music, physical movement and text (always with a beat!), prepare to experience abstract sequences of virtuosic face dancing, vampires, cowboys, sporting moves, thievery and a mathematical tale!

Here is a 3 minute highlights video

Letter Piece Quartet SHOW!

2011-02-05T06:10:00.003-08:00

In 2010 LPC created an hour long show for the Transit (Leuven) and Huddersfield music festivals that we'll play again at the Chisenhale Dance Space (London) and Soundwaves (Brighton) in July 2011.

The show featured two new Letter Piece quartets by Matthew and Shila, two existing duos, and a work by Tom Johnson for narrator and musical trio.

Programme
Anaraki / Shlomowitz - LP Quartet 1: Five Finger Discount
Shlomowitz -LP 5: Northern Cities
Tom Johnson - Narayana's Cows
Shlomowitz - LP 3: Australia, Bolton, Clinton, Dachshund & Echinacea
Anaraki / Shlomowitz - LP Quartet 2: Mixed Doubles

The Transit show was reviewed in the Belgian paper De Standaard
The theatrical and multimedia was clearly popular [in this edition of Transit]. As in the irrisistibly humoristic character pieces of Matthew Shlomowitz, which melted music, movement and performance with each other. (Oct 2010)

LPQ1: Five Finger Discount

LPQ2: Mixed Doubles

Performed at Transit Festival (Belgium), October 2010

@ Vooruit, Gent

2011-02-05T06:10:00.001-08:00

LPC performed 4 Letter Pieces at Korte Metten at Vooruit in Gent on 3/2/10, including a new superhero version of Letter Piece 1:

@ Queen's University, Belfast

2011-02-05T06:09:00.001-08:00

LPC did a series of events at Queen's University in Belfast in November 2009.

>> 1pm, Wednesday 18 November - LECTURE
on the Letter Piece project for the Sonic Arts Research Centre.

>> 1pm, Thursday 19 November - CONCERT
Letter Pieces 2, 3 and 7
and works by Tom Johnson:
Bedtime Stories
Counting Duets
Music with mistakes

>> Friday/Saturday 20/21 November- WORKSHOP
Adventures in Interdisciplinarity: a 2 day project working with masters students of the The Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts, an interdisciplinary arts programme.

@ Brxl Bravo

2011-02-05T06:08:00.000-08:00

4 Letter Pieces were performed twice each at the opening event of the Bravo Festival in Brussels on 2.9.09, also featuring David Helbich. Here are some photos.

Letter Piece Workshops for kids!

2011-02-05T06:07:00.001-08:00

Letter Piece 3

2011-02-05T06:04:00.002-08:00

Australia, Bolton, Clinton, Dachshund & Echinacea
Performed at Rational Rec (London)

Letter Piece 7

2011-02-05T06:04:00.001-08:00

British Sign Language
Performed at Kings Place, London

Letter Piece 2

2011-02-05T06:03:00.001-08:00

Assam, Buchanan, Chelsea, Dalmatian & Egypt
Performed at Rational Rec, London (4 March 2008)

Letter Piece 1

2011-02-05T06:02:00.003-08:00

Arsenal, Bahrain, Chihauhau, Darjeeling & Eisenhower
Performed at Festival Made, part of the Flandres Festival (Gent)

ABOUT THE LETTER PIECE COMPANY

2011-02-05T06:02:00.001-08:00

The Letter Piece Company is dancer Shila Anaraki, light designer Tom Bruwier, keyboardist Mark Knoop, guitarist Tom Pauwels, composer Matthew Shlomowitz, recorder player Tomma Wessel.

The group was formed in 2008 to perform Matthew's Letter Pieces - short duo performance pieces that combine physical actions, text and sound.

In 2010 LPC created an hour long show for the Transit (Leuven) and Huddersfield music festivals, performed again at the Chisenhale Dance Space (London) and Soundwaves (Brighton) in July 2011. The show featured two new Letter Piece quartets by Matthew and Shila.

In 2011 LPC is working on an hour long piece called A to Zzz. The work will be premiered in February 2012 at Vooruit (Gent) who is producing the work. We are also supported by the Brussels based artslab PianoFabriek and the Flemish Community.

On this blog you can see photos and videos from performances, some information about the work, and details where we have performed.