songunsung + Dust
P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Festival MA STUDIOS
Double bill
19:30
Mira Maria Studer
songunsung
- echolocation, the bat - te amo te amo, she said to me - ableton live 11 - 2010 heartbreak - the birth of opera - imploded home studio - 1608 (Italy) - Ach ich fühl’s - echolocation, the nymph -
Wading through the sound waves of laments (aka love songs) stemming out of mouths from 1608 to 2024 – a voice before meaning broadcasts them into the theatre space. They seem oh so familiar. They touch you but also feel distant. Like the foreign tongue of a loved one. The mouth estranges them, warps their time, body and space together. It is a process of dislocating the laments that have been put into our hands.
20:45
Judith Dhondt & Urtė Groblytė
Dust
Something approaches me… I become not myself but Huh mixed with somebody.
Who is it? Is it Hmm? Huh mixed with Hmm. Huhhmm.
From the moment my eyeballs move towards this other- I am … I am … who am I?
(based on a fragment from The Waves by Virginia Woolf)
Hmm & Huh transform into one and fall apart multiples -
desiring their own form that splits and merges.
With an open mouth they are waiting for words, to catch them -
language pushes them together and pulls them apart.
Dust wants to dive deeper into ideas of symbiosis from a non-harmonic point of view, approaching the self as an erotic body intimately containing multiple beings.
A collaboration between Urtė Groblytė & Judith Dhondt that branches into two performances (Dust and A Lovely Construction Site) and is bound together by a shared reading and writing practice. Together they have created a soil to let their performative works bloom out off.
songunsung
concept and performance Mira Maria Studer | artistic support Carina Premer | company and outside eye Jessica Allemann | costume design Dustin Kenel | costume conception Laura Stellacci | mentors Carolina Mendonça, Bojana Cvejić | in conversation with Géraldine Haas, Juliette Uzor, Kopano Maroga, Luis Ramirez Muñoz, Veza Fernandez <3
Dust
created & performed by Judith Dhondt &Urtė Groblytė | music Luis Ramirez Muñoz | scenography Sibran Sampers | costume Gonne Vanspauwen | light Wannes Vanspauwen | dramaturgy Milan Van Bortel | graphic design Arno Huyghens | mentoring Chloe Chignell & Stefa Govaart | special thanks to Marie Schraepen, Iris Donders, Delphine Mertens, Bojana Cvejić, Marie Goudot & Christine de Smedt | inspiration & citations from Lovebug - Daisy Lafarge, The Book of Promethea - Hélène Cixous, Eros the bittersweet - Anne Carson, The Waves - Virginia Woolf, Dust - L.A. Warman