Echo

Echo tells a story, sung in solely vowels and visualized by singers. New Amsterdam Jazz arranged the recording of the collective’s premier at the Grachtenfestival on August 17th. Echo is a collaboration between Floris Kappeyne (music), Sophie Prins (dance) and Maria Ravelli (philosophy and costume).

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Echo is an opera without a libretto, or a ballet performed by professional singers. The piece is about the resonance that the autonomous individual finds in his environment and the influence that this same environment has on the autonomous individual. The title Echo captures the friction between the ego and his desire for resonance.