You already know the sound. A rope hitting the floor at speed, the breath that keeps it going, the slap of running shoes on a hard floor. What you might not know is that a small Italian dance collective and an electronic composer who hears music inside noise have spent a year listening to that sound as music. We gather at DAS HAUS to witness what they made of it.

Parini Secondo's HIT has been packing rooms on world tour with their dancers and composer Bienoise. For HIT EXTENDED, they're joined by none other than Ictus, Brussels' powerhouse contemporary ensemble. Three of their percussionists move in for an in-house residency, building new music and choreography into the piece. The ropes write the rhythm. Bienoise's electronics build the room. The percussion answers back.

Parini Secondo make dance the way a music producer makes a track. They lift moves from online tutorials, remix, and build shows out of what the internet has already taught the body to do. The skipping in HIT came out of a year inside the Italian skipping community, sponsored by MarcRope, a Milanese rope brand whose tagline "make your cardio an art" the collective takes at face value.

Alberto Ricca, who composes as Bienoise, has a long record of broken interfaces, building music out of noise, error, and low-bitrate mp3. His album Most Beautiful Design came out on Mille Plateaux, the cult Frankfurt label of glitch and clicks-and-cuts, originally pressed on floppy disk.

Ictus formed in Brussels as the live band for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas dance company, which means having dancers and musicians share a floor is built into the ensemble's DNA, not a stretch. For HIT EXTENDED, three of their percussionists are in the room, including musical director Tom De Cock, who is currently conducting Philip Glass's marathon opera Einstein on the Beach on international tour.

Final score of this season hits in the long light of late June, at Oasis BXL in Forest, a raw warehouse with the kind of floor a rope strike sounds good on. Three dancers, three percussionists, one electronic composer, you close to all of it, and a sound that started in a Milanese gym, arrives on a Brussels evening, as a piece of music.
Come hear how it lands.

Food:
Before the concert, we gather around a delicious, seasonal vegetarian/vegan meal by our chef Miguel — an essential part of the DAS HAUS experience. Food is prepared in limited quantities, so arrive early or better reserve a food add-on while booking your ticket to be sure to join the feast.

Schedule:
19:00: doors, drinks & food
20:30: start concert
21:45: end concert & drinks