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Katie Duck about James & Camille:
"I am a performing artist with a keen ear to work with live music. I am interested in musicians who are able to extend their musical communications into physical activities that combine with dancers, performers and/or vocalist. In this area Camille and James exceeded all of my expectations. Their readiness to engage with the performers both physically and visually was extraordinary and, because their style is so unique, difficult to describe.." |
DaMu (short for Dance and Music) began with a workshop with Mary Oliver and Michael Schumacher on dance and music improvisation in 2011, but quickly developed its own individual approach, in which space and movement become part of the musical performance.
The performers are just as likely to move, speak, sing, or play with objects as they are to play their instruments. Interacting in the moment with each other and with the environment, they merge sound, gesture, colour, and light, into an unpredictable, site-specific gesamtkunstwerk. |
Guus Janssen over the DaMu Collective: "De musici/dansers waar het hier om gaat zijn er op een zo'n losse en authentieke manier mee bezig dat het hoe absurd het ook allemaal oogt zeer overtuigend overkomt. Zij zijn echt op zoek naar nieuwe manieren om af te komen van de stijfheid waar veel manieren van muziek maken aan leiden (daar hoor ik overigens zelf ook bij...!) Op hun manier weten zij nieuwe betekenissen te creėren."
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