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Photographs: Overtongue © Sebastian Runge

Overtongue


The language has infested the world. It is a virus that has spread everywhere and infiltrated us. Overtongue by the Berlin-based Brazilian choreographer Michelle Moura deals with disembodied voice and the confusion of meaning as a response to the informational chaos and the polarization of our times. The choreographer uses ventriloquism as a tool to engage with an unusual sensoriality of the voice. She composes body landscapes marked by the mechanic and the grotesque, using delirious, slippery language, physical and vocal dissociations, and transformations. In the performance, the chimerical body is a network, possessed by voices and speaking tongues. It is in the process of becoming something else: Maybe alive, maybe dead.


CREDITS

Choreography and performance
Michelle Moura
 
Dramaturgy 
Maikon K 

Sound
Kaj Duncan David

Light 
Annegret Schalke

Texts
Maikon K, Michelle Moura

Costumes 
Thelma Bonavita

Curtain
Sonja Jokiniemi 

Production 
Michelle Moura

Co-production
CND - Centre National de la Danse
Something Great 

Distribution
Something Great

Residencies
Vooruit
STUK
Fabrik Potsdam
Tanzhaus Zurich
Traumabarundkino
Lake Studios 

With the kind support of
Copel
Profice Paraná

Acknowledgements
Mateusz Szymanówka and the entire team of Sophiensaele, Alejandro Ahmed, Faetusa Tirzah, Fernando Marés, Greice Barros e Nadja Naira