‘When I show up, I hold out my hand to you.’
‘Nice, can I keep it?’
‘No, you can’t. I’ll need it for waving goodbye when I leave.’
Let us meet a thousand times, let us leave and return to each other 999 times.
Let us share, add and multiply a thousand times of joy, sorrow, hope and disappointment.
Each time, in a different way, we are together and alone. Sometimes we say goodbye with a sense of relief, often with sadness and regret. On stage in a world of paper pillars, there is a life of ‘comings and goings’. Slow, tragic and humorous. Sketches of introductions under various circumstances and disguises.
The music is a selection from songs and piano pieces by George Gershwin, performed live by soprano Kelly Poukens.
About Kelly Poukens
Belgian soprano Kelly Poukens is the winner of the Stiftung Blatow prize in the International Anton Rubinstein competition (Germany), and the silver award in the Manhattan International Music Competition (US). She was runner-op in the Honda Competition For Classical Music (Belgium), won the Prix Sophie, Laureates award and the audience award during the finals and preliminaries of the Princess Christina Competition (the Netherlands).
