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WHOOP WHOOP(S)!

Oorkaan Ensemble

A staged concert

  • Distinguished musicians perform with percussion, accordion, harp, and wind instruments in a live concert.
  • Female and male performers with accordion and hurdy-gurdy in a live music setting.
  • Performer captured mid-move during an artistic dance show in a theatrical setting.
  • A woman and a man playing traditional music with instruments on stage, expressive performance in a cultural event.
  • Multi-actor on stage playing musical instruments with energetic poses in a dramatic theatre setting.
  • Dynamic performance by artist with accordion showcasing musical talent amidst outdoor clothing backdrop.
  • Casual, lively scene from a theatrical play featuring colorful costumes and musical instruments.
  • Vibrant dance and live music, featuring a woman dancing and musicians playing instruments.
  • A saxophone player performing in front of a grand piano, with a modern wooden and metal partition backdrop.
  • Performers using binoculars on stage, energetic and engaging act with dynamic costumes.
  • Close-up of a woman playing a harp on stage with a photographer capturing the moment.

Regie team

Stage direction
Caecilia Thunnissen / Yorick Stam
Set design
Morgana Machado Marques
Costume design
Esra Copur
Lighting design
Jeroen Oostenveld
Photography
Bart Grietens
Regie
Caecilia Thunnissen / Yorick Stam

Oorkaan Ensemble

(bas) Clarinet
Michele Mazzini
Harp
Michela Zanoni
Bajan
Robbrecht Van Cauwenberghe
Percussion 
Veysel Dzhesur

Premiered on the 27th of February in MCO Hilversum

Reviews

‘The four-color musicians (in beautiful costumes by Esra Copur) from Oorkaan bring with Whoop Whoop(s)! a musically tickling and mysterious staged concert with Turkish classics (by Fazil Say, among others) and new compositions and arrangements by Steven Kamperman. It is beautiful how the instruments actually become part of the players, and they chase each other away with deep sounds, call to them with cheerful melodies or disrupt with loud tones. artists are excellent.’

‘The theatricality in the compositions, the tension between different instruments, the changing timbres, the increasing threats and welcome release, are strikingly shaped by the open-playing, four-piece ensemble. Ultimately, that is what Oorkaan has been good at for two decades: exploring the theatricality within compositions and making it spatial and physical.’ – Theaterkrant