Tirana
11 - 11 February
Thursday to Saturday 7h30pm
ACCESSIBILITY
11 February 7.30pm
Session with Audiodescription
Age restriction:
M/6Choreography and artistic direction
Luisa Saraiva
Instruments and sound installation
Inês Water Turtle
performance
Alice Heyward, Fabiola Augusta, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso and Luisa Saraiva
External vision and dramaturgy support
Francisco Antão Research Alice Heyward, Luísa Saraiva and Julius Gabriel
Costumes
Isabelle Lange
Light design
Thais Nepomuceno
Breathing research and training
Sudeep Kumar Puthyaparambath
Vocal training
Fabiola Augusta
Production Management
Apricot Productions and Joana Silva
Acknowledgments
Folklore Group Terras de Arões, Grupo de Cantares do Paúl, Arnaldo Saraiva, Niklaus Bein and Alex Sandro Malheiro
Production
Crybaby GbR and Calote Spherica Association
Coproduced by
Teatro do Bairro Alto, Fundação Serralves and Museum Folkwang
Financial support from
Nationales Performance Netz Stepping Out funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media under the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative, Assistance Program for Dance, Kunststiftung NRW, República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes and Kulturamt der Stadt Essen
With support from
CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva
Photos by
Milan Daemgen
Audiodescription at Teatro do Bairro Alto by
FrancoAcesso
Tirana is an immersive sound choreography that explores singing physicalities, body pneumatics and the limits of the female voice, both in pitch and volume. The work addresses gender issues through the production and interpretation of sound. Inspiration is gathered from Portuguese folk songs and female polyphonic repertoire, which are traditionally sung in a loud and expansive manner and address themes of female labour, motherhood, and violence.