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