Tirana

Tirana is an immersive sound choreography that explores singing physicalities, the air in a body and the limits of the female voice, both in pitch and volume.

The work addresses gender issues through the production and interpretation of sound. Inspiration is gathered from Portuguese folk songs and female polyphonic repertoire, which are traditionally sung in a loud and expansive manner and address themes of female labour, motherhood and violence.

Sound artist, Inês Tartaruga Água, created a new instrument especially for this piece. By sculpting movement and sound landscapes, the spaces in between are investigated, from breath to song.

For the visitor, this performance is a very physical experience.

Choreography, Artistic Direction

Luísa Saraiva

Instruments

Inês Tartaruga Água

Performance by and with

Alice Heyward, Fabíola Augusta, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Luísa Saraiva

Outside ear & Dramaturgic support

Francisco Antão

Research

Alice Heyward, Luísa Saraiva, Julius Gabriel

Costumes

Isabelle Lange

Light design

Thaís Nepomuceno

Research and breath training

Sudeep Kumar Puthyaparambath

Vocal coach

Fabíola Augusta

Production management

Apricot Productions (DE); Joana Sillva (PT)

Acknowledgements

Grupo de Folclore Terras de Arões, Grupo de Cantares do Paúl, Arnaldo Saraiva, Niklaus Bein, Alex Sandro Malheiro

A production from

Crybaby GbR and Associação Calote Esférica

Co-produced by

Teatro do Bairro Alto, Museu de Serralves and Museum Folkwang

Financed by

Nationales Performance Netz Stepping Out funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media under the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative, Assistance Program for Dance, Kunststiftung NRW, República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes and Kulturamt der Stadt Essen

With the support of

CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva.

Past

STUK Labozaal

Basis €14
Reductie €10

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