FROM A THROAT OF FLESH, 2018

“From a throat of flesh” is a vocal choreography where a polyphony of voices explore the voice beyond speech, as sounding flesh. A choir, but not for singing. The piece moves through voiced expressions which, socially and historically, have been subjected to acts of disciplining and ”civilizing”, taken as pretext to categorize people as barbaric, brute and hysterical. Departing from voice as moving flesh, the piece sounds its way through the ideological landscape that voice is, and has been, tied to. Deeply rooted in the transgressive nature of voice, as well as its home in breath and the inside of the body, the piece recognizes the paradoxical fear and longing for intimacy and physical proximity in the wake of the trauma of the current pandemic. The audience experiences the piece with eye masks on, witnessing the bodies, the voices and the sounding flesh as they unfold a choreography for the ears.

Choreographers and performers: Kajsa Wadhia, Moa Franzén and Tove Salmgren.

Performed at Köttinspektionen, Uppsala and Fylkingen, Stockholm (2018), Weld, Stockholm(2020), Research Week, Stockholm University of the Arts (2020), Artlab Gnesta. (2021), HTK, Haninge (2023). Co-produced by Köttinspektionen Dans and Weld. Supported by Stockholms Stad and The Swedish Arts Grand Committee.

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