AARHUS JAZZ FESTIVAL
July 13 - 20 2024
Never Ending Shanghai – Laura Rathschau & Signe Bisgaard ((DK)) - Photo:

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Never Ending Shanghai – Laura Rathschau & Signe Bisgaard ((DK))

23:30

Jasmine Chen (voc), Søren Hein Rasmussen (live-historian), Jakob Sørensen (trp), Anders Banke (t-sax, b-cl), Julie Kjær (a-sax, fl), Ida Nørholm (vc), Søren Lyngsø (laptop), Mark Solborg (g), Signe Bisgaard (p), Sisse Foged Hyllested (b), Peter Bruun (drm), Ruben Lisboa (interactive scenography), Laura Rathschau (scenography)
A sensually packed story about 1920s Shanghai. Nine jazz musicians, new music, a famous Chinese singer, a Danish historian, a laser organ, and interactive scenography. That's what lies ahead in an extraordinary midnight concert with music by Signe Bisgaard and visuals by designer Laura Rathschau, who reimagine the beautiful old riding house and create a brand new audiovisual experience. The concert has been performed in Musikhuset Aarhus and tells the story of a landmark period of world history - full of opium dens, gangsters, and professional nannies. The band consists of some of the most prominent soloists on the Danish jazz scene in an ensemble with the award-winning historian Søren Hein Rasmussen, and the Chinese singer Jasmine Chen, who has toured the world with her music. During the concert, sound and pictures move in an indirect course through the streets of Shanghai and through improvised bits full of atmosphere. Like a time machine, the band takes us from the 1920s nightclubs of the East to a futuristic and modern Aarhus 2017. Along the way, the history takes shape through lights, pictures, and animations, which are projected onto surfaces in the room. In a close ensemble with the music, the digital scenography develops and forms a different kind of concert experience. The show stems from an interactive iPad cartoon produced by Kong Orange and is presented in collaboration with Folkeuniversitetet.

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Organizer
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
30 24 06 62
Info/Ticket

Cover charge FREE

Aarhus Jazz Festival

Godsbanen, Skovgaardsgade 3

DK-8000 Aarhus C