Chapter 4: Encore Living, Rehearsing…

Following three day-to-night performances of Living, Rehearsing…in January and February, we moved from winter into spring with the building itself. We have sounded its corners, crossed its thresholds and embodied resonances as they gathered and dispersed. What culminates in May is not a conclusion, but another beginning.

Conceived with artist Tarek Atoui, Encore is a special evening structured as two live working sessions. Its point of departure is a central room in the YDP building presenting Atoui’s existing installations. Atoui joins six other musicians based in the UK and France working across various instruments and genres, many of whom he has not worked with before. The invitation is not to contribute to a fixed composition, but to place the collaborators’ own practices, vocabularies and approaches at the heart of the process.

Throughout the evening, performers move between solo and collective modes across multiple rooms in YDP, activating wind, water, electricity and…