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Great Exhibitionists: In the Poet’s Mirror – Beyond the Human Condition

Dates
24 March 2026, 3:00pm

Venue
Britten Theatre

Tickets
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A blue graphic of a tree trunk with doors containing a sphere and toy house

24 March 2026, 3:00pm

Venue
Britten Theatre

Tickets
Pay What You Can

Our Pay What You Can model allows you to choose a ticket price that works for you, from £2 to £15, with a free option to ensure our events are accessible to all audience members.ÌýAny donation youÌýare able toÌýmake will directly support our talented students and help us to provide a first-class educational experience for this next generation of professional musicians.Ìý

At the heart of a multi-artistic exchange, words, notes, forms, colours, and movements merge into an emotional communion.

This work does notÌýseekÌýto reflect the world through a reality built solely on what we already know. Far beyond this, the poet’s mirror captures the impalpable and translates it into human language, drawing from the soul and the unconscious a truth that often escapes materialÌýperception.Ìý
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Every artist is a poet: like a poem, music, dance, painting and the other arts weave an invisible tapestry through tools perceptible to the senses. Within this fragrance of creativity, the audience is invited to cross the mirror of artists who pierce the limits of so-called reality.

This mirror also reflects the artist confronting Life and Death, which we seek to perceive in a brighter light, infused with hope. Upon a land fractured between wound and vulnerability, the fragile flower of humanity is reborn, within a darkness pierced by the stars of hope.

‘The world and its mystery are never remade; it is not a model that one merely has to copy.’ – René MagritteÌý

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Grace Sibre conception & direction

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Programme

Prologue
Duet piano & english horn
Music by Eliot André

I. Vulnera Impalpabilia
1 - Melancholia
2 - Infernus
3 - Evanescentia
Contrabass recorder, electronics, piano, violin, voice
Music by Hannah Horobynska
Based on a French poem written by Grace Sibre

II. Transitus
Piano, dance, live drawing
Music byÌýBéla Bartók and Sooji Seol
Choreography by Esther Bedeau

III. Resurrectio
String quartet, dance
Music by Molly Arnuk
Choreography by Esther Bedeau

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Performers

Nehir Özeke, Eli Bryan, Cala Molinos dancers
Pamella Gomes live drawing

Joseph Page contrabass paetzold recorder
Hannah Horobynska, Sooji Seol, Sabina Suciu piano
Grace Sibre violin

Jasmine Quartet:
Mira Steenbrugge violin
Amber Correa violin
Becca Marr viola
Ezra Escobr cello

Magritte Duet:
Anne-Cécile Wager piano
Timothé Hasbroucq oboe

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