A participatory storytelling with multiple evolutionary possibilities.
HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU THINK:
WHAT IF I WOULD HAVE TAKEN THAT FLIGHT?
WHAT IF I WOULD HAVE KISSED HER?
WE CHOOSE AND EVOLVE ON THE BASIS OF THE CHOICES WE MAKE, AND SO DOES LULELA.
19 different endings
21 crossroads
38 chapters
228 minutes of interactive performance
11.706 words
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Lulela, a combination of the Italian ‘lui’, ‘lei’ en ‘l’altro’ or ‘he, ‘she’ and ‘the other’, is a hybrid jazz concert in which performers, protagonists, and audience become one fluid identity. Lulela is a musical trip that combines emotions as loneliness and melancholia with humor and romance. Within this trip, award-winning composer Gabriele di Franco researches structures of jazz composition and poetry. Where pieces like Cobra by John Zorn are written as a game piece for musicians, Lulea makes a radical step, and lets the audience play.
PRODUCTION INFO
Lulela is a participative jazz concert, performed by 6 musicians on stage, with a story that unfolds differently during each performance. When the protagonist is at a crossroads, his path is determined by the decisive power of the audience: who he will be and what he could have been, is defined by the audience. The audience navigates through 19 different storylines of which only 2 are revealed during each performance, resulting in a 1 hour and 30 minutes interactive music theatre concert.
More about Lulela
Narration in Italian
Animated subtitles in English or Dutch
for contacts and info:
Full performance
https://vimeo.com/621767014
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More info HERE
LOD / Gabriele di Franco: Lulela
concept, text, composition & direction Gabriele di Franco //
narration & bassoon Marcello Giannandrea // soprano Guro Tveitnes or Aphrodite Patoulidou // vibraphone & glockenspiel Pierre Hurty // drums Daniel Jonkers // double bass Filipe Caporali // jazz guitar Gabriele di Franco // sound Guillaume Desmet // technics Johannes Ringoot // production manager Rozemarijn Van Kalmthout & Liesbet Termont // production LOD muziektheater
LULELA won the “Elevator Jazz Pitch” – InJazz 2019 supported by Berthold Records.
THE TEXT OF LULELA WON:
- High Mention Cultural Merit – Mr. Hyde Awards
- 2nd prize at International Award “Europa in versi e in prosa” 2021
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