DDD 2024 at TMP
Jan Martens / GRIP
VOICE NOISE
April
2024
national premiere
Mon
29
Tue
30
Sinopse
“Irritating noise”: this is how the voice of the woman has often been considered from ancient Greek times to today. VOICE NOISE is inspired by Anne Carson's essay The Gender of Sound (1992), in which she exposes how patriarchal culture has sought to silence women by ideologically associating women's sound with monstrosity, disorder and death. In VOICE NOISE, some innovative, unknown and/or forgotten women's voices from the past hundred years of music history are given a stage. Six dancers respond to recordings in which the human voice can be heard in various guises: humming, soothing, shrieking, whispering, singing. Gradually, they discover their own voice. Jan Martens returns to a production for a small ensemble of six dancers. He works with some dancers who have inspired him in the past and invites new faces. The choreographer’s obsessions with numbers, geometry and patterning meets the unique physical languages of these performers, and a new-found interest in dance itself emerges: in detail and subtlety, in redefining grace and elegance. — Jan Martens / GRIP
feminine
resistance
stories
voices
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Aditional info
- Price
12€
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Duration
1h30
- Age rating
14+
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
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Author's bio text
Jan Martens (1984, Belgium) studied at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg and graduated in 2006 from the dance department of the Artesis Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. Since 2010 he has been making his own choreographic work, which, over the years, has been performed with increasing regularity before a national and international audience. The work of Martens is nurtured by the belief that each body can communicate, that each body has something to say. That direct communication expresses itself in transparent forms. In each new work he tries to redraw the relation between public and performer. He is associated artist with deSingel Antwerp, La Comédie scène nationale de Clermont-Ferrand, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Maison de la danse Lyon and Lyon Dance Biennale. In 2014, Jan Martens founded the choreographic platform GRIP with business director Klaartje Oerlemans in Antwerp / Rotterdam.
Ficha Técnica
- Choreography
Jan Martens
Performance
Elisha Mercelina, Steven Michel, Courtney May Robertson, Mamadou Wagué, Loeka Willems, Sue-yeon Youn
Rehearsal director
Zora Westbroek
Understudies
Pierre Adrien Touret, Zora Westbroek
Lighting design
Jan Fedinger
Costume design
Sofie Durnez
Scenography
Joris Van Oosterwijk
Intern
Malick Cissé
Outside Eyes
Marc Vanrunxt, Rudi Meulemans, Femke Gyselinck
All movements are created by the dancers
- Produced by
Grip
International distribution
A Propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, Lara Van Lookeren
Co-produced by
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Maison de la Danse de Lyon, deSingel International Arts Centre, Théâtre de Liège, Julidans, Le Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, Romaeuropa Festival, Scène nationale de Forbach, Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Équinoxe – Scène nationale de Châteauroux
Residencies
La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand (France), deSingel (Antwerp, Belgium), Charleroi Danse, Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles (Belgium)
With the financial support of
The Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of The Belgian Federal Government Via BNPPFFF
