CRY OF THE SOIL:
SONIC DANCES
TO LIVE THROUGH
A BODY- & COMMUNITY-BASED VIBRANCY ACROSS ARBITRARY AND FENCED BORDERS
Our flesh is drying out. Our flesh is melting away. Our flesh is exploited and extracted. And we keep on breathing. On our map of thoughts, we combine saliva, moist, sweat, tears, drought, fumes, and weather fluxes.
We turn specifically towards traditional folk music practices as critical tools for shaping the futures. We are interested in their cathartic, rebellious and relation-building functions and potentials. We look for the ways of holding on together. It comes from the longing to reconnect to the place, to lived collectivity, to emotions and senses.
We understand voice and music primarily as an intimate somatic experience. We are interested in the quakes that voice and collective music practices provoke on social and somatic levels:
What is this affective charge between sounding and listening? How does music affect us as sentient social beings and facilitate going through difficult experiences? How does it help us to understand and shape sociality? How does it make us swell out beyond our bodily contours – becoming a boundless community of pulses and flows?
We instigate collective processes of learning ABOUT and WITH selected folk music traditions. We use tools derived from fieldwork understood as a process of becoming and our choreographic practices: we focus on the tangibility of sound, deep listening techniques, explore ways and spaces to raise, release and sustain the voice, work with the affective and kinesthetic potential of music, research historical, geopolitical and ecological contexts, and relate to culture as biology. This allows us to explore folk music practices from the perspective of intertwined somatic and social experiences.
PROGRAM:
CREATIVE TEAM:
Concept, research-creation, facilitation & production Dorota Michalak & Maud Buckenmeyer
Research-creation, teaching & contribution Otucha Collective (Ola Zielinska, Agnieszka Bulacik), Róz Rózynski, Izouran (Borys Slowikowski, Hicham Ounamir), Witold Roy Zalewski, Michael Castalan, Aziza Bouizedkane, Katarzyna Hertz, Contact Zone (Joanna Zielinska-Öktem, Baris Öktem), Kasba Houariyat (Aicha, Rokiya & Aziza), Touda Ibourk, Khadija Ibourk, Singers from Dobrowoda (Walentyna Klimowicz & Nina Jawdosiuk), Ayoub El Ayady, Rie Bonsai, Afous Afous, Karim Alikan, Rachid Amrani, Shaymae Maallema, Essaid Rhat, Adil, Hassan Larsson, Grazyna Chyra, Barbara Kuzub-Samosiuk (Czeremszyna)
PARTNERS:
Kultura Kresu in Bialowieza (PL)
Contact Zone in Kojły (PL)
Queens Collective in Marrakesh (MA)
Cafe Clock in Marrakesh (MA)
Café Essaouira (MA)
Ayoub El Ayady in Essaouira (MA)
Hicham Ounamir in Amazzer (MA)
SUPPORTED BY:
Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland