VOICE NOISE
estreia nacional
“Irritating noise”: this is how the voice of the woman has often been considered from ancient Greek times to today. VOICE NOISE is inspired by Anne Carson's essay The Gender of Sound (1992), in which she exposes how patriarchal culture has sought to silence women by ideologically associating women's sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
In VOICE NOISE, some innovative, unknown and/or forgotten women's voices from the past hundred years of music history are given a stage. Six dancers respond to recordings in which the human voice can be heard in various guises: humming, soothing, shrieking, whispering, singing. Gradually, they discover their own voice. Jan Martens returns to a production for a small ensemble of six dancers. He works with some dancers who have inspired him in the past and invites new faces. The choreographer’s obsessions with numbers, geometry and patterning meets the unique physical languages of these performers, and a new-found interest in dance itself emerges: in detail and subtlety, in redefining grace and elegance. — Jan Martens / GRIP
Co-presentation with Teatro Central (Sevilha)
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Credits
Choreography
Jan Martens
Performance
Elisha Mercelina, Steven Michel, Courtney May Robertson, Mamadou Wagué, Loeka Willems, Sue-yeon Youn
Rehearsal director
Zora Westbroek
Understudies
Pierre Adrien Touret, Zora Westbroek
Lighting design
Jan Fedinger
Costume design
Sofie Durnez
Scenography
Joris Van Oosterwijk
Intern
Malick Cissé
Outside Eyes
Marc Vanrunxt, Rudi Meulemans, Femke Gyselinck
All movements are created by the dancers.
Produced by
Grip
International distribution
A Propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, Lara Van Lookeren
Co-produced by
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Maison de la Danse de Lyon, deSingel International Arts Centre, Théâtre de Liège, Julidans, Le Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, Romaeuropa Festival, Scène nationale de Forbach, Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Équinoxe – Scène nationale de Châteauroux
Residencies
La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (France), deSingel (Antwerp, Belgium), Charleroi Danse, Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles (Belgium)
With the financial support of
The Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of The Belgian Federal Government Via BNPPFFF
