Performance, 50’
Teatro 2, Pelanda
Admission free while places last
Strobe lights will be used during the performance
This collaborative performance from vocalist Stine Janvin and choreographer Ula Sickle evokes the ritual of coming together on a dance floor around music in the late hours of the night. While gathering in a nightclub has been almost impossible over the past years due to the new reality brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Echoic Choir takes on the challenge of using 'physical distancing' rules as artistic parameters.
Relying on the power of acoustic voices and spatial resonance, the project aims to create a collective and immersive sensorial event, by placing performers and audience in a shared space. Sound, choreography and lights create a strong synesthetic experience that channels the embodied experience of being on a late-night dance floor. Revisiting this setting and its sensory memories, albeit within new parameters, allows for new perspectives on a familiar scenario. The spectators are invited to participate in the work through their listening and their physical presence, realising a new kind of collective ritual.
Ula Sickle (CA/PL) is a choreographer and performer, living and working in Brussels (BE). From a background in contemporary dance, she works across disciplines, drawing from contemporary music and the visual arts. She studied in Toronto and Paris, before attending PARTS, Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels and Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing. In 2017-18 she was artist in residence at Ujazdowski Center for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and WIELS in Brussels. Ula’s performances have been presented in theaters and festivals across Europe including the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Tanz Im August (Berlin), Moving in November (Helsinki) and Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris), among others. Ula is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Flemish Authorities.
www.ulasickle.com
Stavanger-born vocalist, performer and sound artist Stine Janvin works with the extensive flexibility of her voice, and the ways in which it can be used to channel physicality of sound. Created for variable spaces from theaters, to clubs and galleries, and more recently websites and digital platforms, the backbone of Janvin’s projects focus on exploring performance formats, vocal instrumentation and potential dualities of the natural versus artificial, tangible/digital, and minimal/dramatic. Her most recent works are SOLD (a dog and pony show) and renowned Fake Synthetic Music, from which she earned a Honorary Mention of the Prix Ars Electronica 2019. Janvin is a fellow at Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in 2020.
stinesthetics.com
ECHOIC CHOIR
concept, composition: Stine Janvin
concept, choreography: Ula Sickle
with Sidney Barnes, Annalise van Even, Roman Ole, Stine Janvin, Ula Sickle (originally with Rishin Singh, Michelle Cheung)
libretto, Dramaturgy: Persis Bekkering
costumes: Wang Consulting
lights: Marcel Weber (MFO), Ofer Smilansky
sound: Raphaël Hénard (also with Olivia Oyama)
research: Amanda Barrio Charmelo, Lisa Vereertbrugghen
shuffle steps: Harrison and Hlyan
graphic design: D-E-A L
coproduction: Wiener Festwochen, MUNCH (Oslo), STUK House for Dance, Image and Sound (Leuven), Dampfzentrale Bern
with the support of the Flemish Community, the Flemish Community Commission, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
residencies: Kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels), DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Dampfzentrale Bern
executive production, diffusion: Future Works