Glitch Choir
- Deva Schubert
Performer/Choir at
Tanztage Berlin, Sophiensaele (DE)
ImPulsTanz Festival, Museum Ludwig (m.u.m.o.k.) Wien (AT)
Bärenzweinger Berlin (DE)
Glitch refers to a (digital) disturbance of information, like a distorted image or a faltering video. GLITCH CHOIR transfers this phenomenon into the analogue space. At the center of the piece is the re-composition of a lamentation song through glitching. Historically, public mourning has been performed primarily by women, so-called lamenters, who, in exchange for payment, give emotional expression to others’ grief for the deceased. It is mostly women who are allowed to, but also damned to glitch the private into the public. The two female performers tend to a collective body of mourning by creating a space of intimate multi-resonance. In the vocal distortion already inherent in the lament, a transformation of mourning into a collective glitch takes place. What kind of choir emerges in the dissonance of frequencies?
Winner of the ImPulsTanz 8:tension series Young Choreographers Award
Credits
Concept, Choreography
Deva Schubert
Performance
Chihiro Araki, Deva Schubert
Choir
Siegmar Zacharias, Emilie Gregersen, Noumissa Sidibé, Doreen Kutzke, Naledi Majola, Francesca Ferrari, Ama Tomberli, Jette Büchsenschütz, Lotta Beckers
Music, sound
Davide Luciani
Light
Hannah Kritten Tangsoo
Dramaturgy
Lotta Beckers
Research and Outside Eye
Jette Büchsenschütz
Costume
Ama Tomberli
Photo Credits
© Mayra Wallraff, Frank Sperling
Link
https://devaschubert.com