het Dierenparadijs   2006
(Animal Paradise)

An animal kingdom
for audiences from 7 - 107 years old
Ned. Vocaal Laboratorium
Duration  60'
Artistic direction  Romain Bischoff
Stage direction  Bärbel Kühn
Music  Nicoleta Chatzopoulou, Pedro Santos,
         Wouter Snoei, W. A. Mozart, a.o.
Live electronics  Tom Tlalim
Live video / puppet theater
            Mendel Hardeman


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Dierenparadijs - cover picture

◊ Caress
◊ Kyrie Eleison
◊ EXODUS
◊ a Tree for Glenn Gould
◊ A Man with a Cross
◊ Via Crucis
◊ The Cup
◊ Epilogue to Orpheus
◊ Harpsichorpheus
◊ Sysif's Song
◊ Dark Blue Horizon
◊ Times and Tides
◊ Unholy Vessels
◊ INDICTUS
◊ HAP
◊ 7 short attempts to
    write a piece for violin
◊ Reveal thyself Alighieri
◊ Last days of a cross
◊ A Última Quimera
research
◊ the Singing Camera
collaborations
◊ Het Dierenparadijs
◊ Tattooed Tongues
◊ Slowly turning narrative
◊ Planecrash
◊ A View on Beauty
Mendel Hardeman archive 1999-2006
singing eye