The season of 2015/2016 Gageego! celebrates 20 years as an music ensemble serving the new.
Danish Seismograf/DMT – dubbing itself the oldest and most modern music magazine in Scandinavia – reviewed Gageego!’s Nordic concert recently.
The ensemble is praised for a gritty choice of music and a no-compromises, first-class performance.
The review also touches upon the sometimes problematic polemics between different modern schools (the traditional instruments versus “freeer” sound art) and discusses whether any typical “Nordic” qualities exists in contemporary music.
Critic Martin Nyström från Stockholm daily DN visited Gageego!’s jubilee concert – and he liked what he heard.
The review also includes a super compact recap of the 20 first years of Gageego!, from the first concert to todays position as one of Sweden’s leading ensembles for contemporary music.
Here, the collaborations with and interest in female composers is emphasized, as is the playfullness and openness of Gageego!.
Read the review at DN.se (in Swedish)!
A performance by choreographer Gun Lund, E=mc² Dance and music ensemble Gageego!
Music by Luciano Berio, Victor Varela and Lars Sandberg.
Dancers: Gunilla Jansson, Adèle St-Aubin, Karin Taliga, Åsa Thegerström.
Musicians: Mikael Kjellgren, Mårten Landström (piano), Jonas Larsson, Per Sjögren (percussion)
Premiered at 3:e Våningen in Göteborg September 2015.
Duration of performance: approx 50 minutes (the documentation is 40 minutes, without intermission between the two dance sections.)
The dance piece LINIER is based on a music composition – Linea (1973) – by Luciano Berio. One of the artist’s references is by Umberto Eco’s notion of the “open work.” In the words of Berio himself when describing Linea, the choreographer Gun Lund opens the piece “as a lost object being rediscovered and thus being seen with a different and more penetrating gaze.
More acknowledgments from major Swedish daily DN, noting “the teeming world of sound, superbly performed by Gageego! under David Björkman’s leadership, which in itself is worth the visit. “
DN visited the Swedish premiere of Prospero’s Garden, a chamber opera by Ming Tsao. Gageego! appeared as the opera chapel.
Read the review (in Swedish) at DN.se!
Crazy from all these 20-years-celebrations, we have been persuaded to offer Gageego!-merchandise. So, be sure to dress up in our comfy tees!
They are made to order, deliveries can take up to 2 – 4 weeks depending on model. So why wait?
Here are some of the variations – click the image to order!
A few more variations can be found here…