Wastories honors a key figure on the European art scene: Austrian composer Eva Reiter, who is back here with one of her favorite themes, that of climate issues and recycling.
This music-theater creation, initiated by the Brussels-based ensemble HYOID voices and based on a libretto by German author Hannah Dübgen, features four voices, an electronic score, and video and stage design developed in close collaboration with Koen Broos.
Fascinated by the theme of waste, the composer sees it not only as a subject of civic struggle, but also as ideal material for bringing reuse to life on stage. Integrating recycling into her writing technique, she recovers, digests and restores the proposals offered by her fellow students. The result of this formidable collective gesture is a powerful, life-saving work.
Coproduction
GMEM (Marseille, France) ; TRANSIT festival (Leuven, BE) ; RIF, ex-Walpurgis (Mortsel, BE) ; Centre Henri Pousseur (Liège) ; festival Musique(s) Rive Gauche (Paris)
Support
Tax Shelter - Perpodium ; Vlaamse Gemeenschap ; Cohort Productions ; Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels ; Forum Culturel Autrichien Paris
Partners
Muziekcentrum de Bijloke (Ghent, BE); CEREGE (Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (Aix-Marseille); BERLIN, documentary theater company (Antwerp); Forum Culturel Autrichien (Paris); Théâtre Silvia Monfort (Paris)
Acknowledgements
Livret & Recherche: Lucie Taïeb, for inspiring us to explore the theme of waste; Marie Phillips, for our brief but rewarding collaboration; To CEREGE & CIRENE: Alain Veron, Vladimir Vidal, and Yves Noack for the quality and generosity of their mediation; Eric Landot, for his insight into legal issues; Nicolas Ferrand de La Conté, for his perspective on current biodiversity-related policies; Victor Beeldens, for sharing his Cradle to Cradle experience
Video: the BERLIN company (Antwerp), for allowing us to use images from their play IQALUIT (capital of the Inuits), as part of their YOUTURN project
Creation: Coline Vandenberghe and the team at the Musique(s) Rive Gauche festival and the Théâtre Silvia Monfort for making this Paris premiere possible.
Eva Reiter
Composer
Eva Reiter was born . Vienna. She studied recorder and viola da gamba at the University of Vienna and continued her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Musician, composer, teacher, artistic advisor and curator, Eva Reiter performs as a soloist and with various early and contemporary music ensembles. Since 2015, she has been a permanent member of the ensemble Ictus. In 2019 and 2020, Eva Reiter was artist-in-residence at Hamburg's Elbphiharmonie and, jointly, at Vienna's Konzerthaus. Since the start of the 2025 academic year, she has been an associate composer in the composition program at IRCAM in Paris.
Hannah Dübgen
Librettist
Hannah Dübgen, born in Germany in 1977, is a writer and playwright. She has published award-winning novels such as Strom (2013) and Über Land (2017), as well as plays and the texts for several internationally acclaimed operas, including Matsukaze (2011), a collaboration with composer Toshio Hosokawa and choreographer Sasha Waltz, and Oryx and Crake (2023), set to music by Søren Nils Eichberg and nominated for the International Opera Award.
HYOID
Vocal ensemble
HYOID is a Brussels-based group of classically-trained solo singers specializing in contemporary repertoire and transdisciplinary performance. The group, with its variable geometry, strives to challenge and expand traditional concert formats, while cultivating close partnerships with composers and artists of its generation. HYOID takes its name from the hyoid bone, a U-shaped bone that aids diction, swallowing and breathing; it is the only floating bone in the human body.
Koen Broos
Videographer, set designer
Born in 1972, Koen Broos lives in Antwerp. He creates autonomous photographic works grouped into numbered series. Specializing in theater and dance photography, he has helped define the visual identity of numerous cultural institutions. Koen Broos' work extends from photography to video: he creates photos for theater and dance in collaboration with artists in Belgium and abroad. He has created musical theater shows with filmic scenography in collaboration with Graindelavoix, Inne Goris (Music Theater LOD & Opera Ballet Vlaanderen), HYOID, among others.
Friche la Belle de Mai (Petit Plateau)
41 Jobin Street13003
Marseille
Duration
approx. 1h00
Prices per concert
Full: 8€
Reduced: 6€*
*Young people aged 12-25, students, jobseekers, social security recipients, intermittent workers, senior citizens aged 65 and over - on presentation of proof.
Free admission for Modulations loyalty card holders (by reservation only)
Practical information
Latecomers will not be admitted to the concert hall, as some shows - at the request of the artistic teams - do not tolerate late entry.
Ticketing
Online: gmem-cncm.mapado.com
By e-mail: billetterie@gmem.org
As part of Modulations
What are Modulations?
Concerts, performances, regular events...
In other words, a season organized by the GMEM.
2nd half-year dates:
20/01/26- 17/02 - 17/03 - 22/03 - 14/04 - 10/05
Eva Reiter
composition, co-dramaturgy
Hannah Dübgen
libretto, co-dramaturgy
Koen Broos
video
Collectif HYOID
composed of
Naomi Beeldens
Fabienne Seveillac
Andreas Halling
Gunther Vandeven
singers
Oli Bonzom
lighting, stage management
Center Henri Pousseur
sound
Harriet Wouters
costumes
Fabienne Seveillac
concept, artistic coordination