Choreographer: Chris Haring
Foreign Tongues puts the act of speaking at the centre of a choreography in urban space and reflects its polyphony and multilingualism. With a flexible sound system the performers interweave the city’s soundscape with the timbres of distant or neighboring language spaces.
Interpreted through dance, voice recordings from different regions in Europe become readable like an open-air score. The sounds of the cities turn into a spoken word symphony. But what is the specific sound of a certain meaning? How does its embodiment look? The languages sampled in Foreign Tongues are, even before they have meaning, fundamentally sound and rhythm, ambivalent islands of sound. Dialects, regional languages and slangs get transformed into sequences of movement, based on their dynamics, emphasis and acoustic atmosphere.
The internationally acclaimed performance company Liquid Loft sets off for public space and uses the collision of languages and communicative contradictions as a means of creation. Foreign Tongues invites you to explore languages we don’t understand in words, in a form of bodily communication, discovering how much is actually, already understood.
“Foreign tongues” is a pilot project of IN SITU – The European Platform for Artistic Creation in Public Space, in the frame of the ACT project. This project is funded with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
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