Events

Suite Camus at the Between the Seas Festival

- an audio-visual tribute to Albert Camus

Suite Camus is an interdisciplinary performance that takes the audience to the heart of the Mediterranean and into the world of French-Algerian writer Albert Camus. Initiated by the Goethe Insitut Paris at the occasion of Camus’ centenary and premiered in Paris on July 2^nd to an enthusiastic audience, it will now be presented for the first time in the US at the Between the Seas Festival NYC on July 27^th and 28^th.

Original texts by Albert Camus and music between jazz, flamenco and ambience are being performed live to the video projection of breathtaking Algerian landscapes; places that Camus described in his works such as Alger, the Sahara desert or ancient roman sites. While following Camus, the videos also depict an honest picture of present-day Algeria, its people, culture, poverty and life on the African coast of the Mediterranean.

The suite is based on a structure that stems from an entry in Albert Camus diary from 1945. Here he lists his “dix mots préférés”, ten words most important to him and his work:  world, pain, earth, mother, man, honor, desert, misery, summer, sea. German composer Andreas Arnold collaborated with Algerian video artists Katia Kameli and Hassen Ferhani to create ten audio-visual compositions for each word. Feat. Dan Brantigan (trumpet), Andreas Arnold (guitar), Moto Fukushima (bass), Marcelo Woloski (percussion).

Saturday, July 27^th, 9:30pm

Sunday, July 28^th, 6pm

The Wild Project

195 East 3^rd Street

New York, NY 10009

For more info and tickets visit: www.betweentheseas.org

 Cost: $20 adult $15 student