~ for ages 6 and up
With Florestita, Hans Beckers presents a new version of his performance La Floresta for a young audience, aimed at engaging the eyes and ears of both young people and adults.
Through this shared sound experience, he explores the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. How do we experience silence in this technological age? How can we connect with our environment by listening? La Floresta is a visual sound concert that immerses you in a deep sensory experience.
The work forms a complex and layered interplay of listening and experiencing that goes beyond a classical concert, embracing both individual and collective experience. In an innovative way, La Floresta weaves participation, awareness, connection, and ritual into a unique total experience.
We all share the ability to listen. La Floresta invites you to open your ears, pause, and pay attention to sounds that we might otherwise overlook –like listening to the enormous richness and polyphonic complexity of a river, which can be experienced in all its detail and as a whole at the same time.
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Hans Beckers has been active in the arts sector as a sound artist, visual artist, and musician since 2012. Over the past 12 years, he has built an extensive body of work that has been exhibited and performed at various festivals and cultural centers at home and abroad, including Bozar, Concertgebouw Brugge, De Singel, STUK, Opéra De Lille (FR), Konserthus Stavanger (NO), Centro Cultural de Belém (PT), Musica Estranha São Paulo (BR), Arte Laguna Venice (IT). He also creates work for theatre, dance, and film.