Three days in a row at Theaterforum Kreuzberg: In March 2023 the Italian dance group „Gut Reaction“ brought their production „HUMANT“ once again on stage. This event was sidelined by a group of drum and dance student who performed a piece as an opening act. I had the pleasure to be one of them.
The piece was a trio for mainly bongo, snare drum and toms. It contained quite a bit of odd time signatures (7/8 and 5/4), cycles had mostly a lenght of three bars (and not four). Some dynamics involved, too.
All this made it quite demanding to play. Also I found out, that standing behind a single drum is something different than sitting behind a full kit: There is nowhere to hide and you feel it in your shoulders afterwards. So the easiest part was the snare drum solo in the middle of the piece that could be improvised.