CRY OF THE SOIL
(2023)
We turn specifically towards traditional folk music practices to learn ways of holding on together. We are interested in their cathartic, rebellious and relation-building functions and potentials.
It comes from the longing to reconnect: to the place, to lived collectivity, to emotionality and sensuality, across arbitrary and fenced borders.
Coming from the dance field, our work is built on the understanding of 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 bodies? How does music affect us as sentient social beings and facilitate facing and 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, densities, waves and flows.
Within the span of 6 months, we instigate collective processes of learning about and with chosen folk music traditions. We work with the tools stemming from our choreographic practice: focusing on the tangibility of sound, deep listening techniques, exploring the techniques and forces that create and sustain the voice, working with music’s affective and kinesthetic potentials, applying biocentric, cellular, and ecological perspectives to sound- and meaning-making. It allows us to explore folk music practices from a focal point of entwined somatic and social experiences.
Concept, research, facilitation & production: DOOM MOOD (Dorota Michalak & Maud Buckenmeyer)
Research: Otucha Collective (Ola Zielinska, Agnieszka Bulacik), Róz Rózynski, Borys Slowikowski, Witold Roy Zalewski, Michael Castalan, Aziza Bouizedkane, Kasia Hertz, Joanna Zielinska-Öktem, Baris Öktem
Teaching: Kasba Houariyat, Hicham Ounamir, Touda Ibourk, Khadija Ibourk, Spiewaczki z Dobrowody (Walentyna Klimowicz & Nina Jawdosiuk)
Contribution: Ayoub El Ayady, Rie Bonsai, Afous Afous, Karim Alikan, Rachid Amrani, Shaymae Maallema, Essaid Rhat, Adil, Hassan Larsson, Grazyna Chyra, Maja, Barbara Kuzub-Samosiuk (Czeremszyna)
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