European Premiere of Beautiful Trouble
Rocketing ecstatically between sadness and joyfulness, Natacha Diels’s Beautiful Trouble is an evening-length ‘opera’ (as dramatic spectacle) for JACK Quartet that explores a slim window of human existence. Moments gathered like precious stones coalesce to create both sense and nonsense, forming a logic all the piece’s own. Organizing the stones just so reveals clarity in chaos, if only for a moment. “Beautiful Trouble is a tour de force of reckless imagination and confident craft, and a testament, however offbeat, to the JACK Quartet’s unshakeable courage and coherence.” — Steve Smith, Musical America

Program: All by Natacha Diels
Episode 1, On Monday
Episode 2, Nightmare for JACK (a ballet)
Episode 3, Sometimes it's the Last Time
Episode 4, An Incredible Easy Method That Works For All (Auto-Pilot)
Episode 5, Beautiful Trouble

Composition, Direction and Video | Natacha Diels
Costumes | Maile Okamura
Technical and Sound Director | Matthew Craig
Lights | Kent Sprague

JACK Quartet + John Luther Adams
JACK Quartet brings a program of music by frequent collaborator, John Luther Adams, to Musica Strasbourg Festival. John Luther Adams works, rarely performed in Europe, are the fruit of a "writing of attention," a sine qua non of the link between humans and the environment.

Program: All by John Luther Adams
Wind in High Places (2010)
Lines Made by Walking (2019) European Premiere