Tirana
Luísa Saraiva(2022)
Tirana : Kind of fandango : Old popular Spanish song of moderate movement and syncopated rhythm in triple time, arising from one that began with the words ¡Ay, tirana, tirana! : An ungrateful, elusive, or evil woman. : Cruel woman
TIRANA is an immersive sound choreography that explores singing physicalities and the limits of the female voice, both in pitch and volume. The work addresses gender issues through the production and interpretation of sound. Inspiration is gathered from Portuguese folk songs and female polyphonic repertoire, which are traditionally sung in a loud and expansive manner and address themes of female labour, motherhood and violence. Sound artist, Inês Tartaruga Água, created an instrument for the work, bringing vast attention to the haptic nature of sound and the relationship of different resonant bodies in space. By creating movement and sound landscapes, there is a search for the spaces in between, from breath to song.
Choreography and artistic direction Luísa Saraiva Instruments and sound installation Inês Tartaruga Água Performance Alice Heyward, Fabíola Augusta, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso and Luísa Saraiva External ear and support for dramaturgy Francisco Antão Research Alice Heyward, Luísa Saraiva and Julius Gabriel Costumes Isabelle Lange Lighting design Thaís Nepomuceno Breathing Research and Training Sudeep Kumar Puthyaparambath Vocal training Fabíola Augusta Executive Production Apricot Productions (DE) and Joana Silva (PT)
Production by Crybaby GbR and Associação Calote Esférica Co-production by Teatro do Bairro Alto, Fundação de Serralves, and Museum Folkwang Funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media within the scope of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative, Assistance Program for Dance, Kunststiftung NRW, República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes and Kulturamt der Stadt Essen, and with financial support from Nationales Performance Netz Stepping Out Supported by CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva Acknowledgements Folklore Group Terras de Arões, Grupo de Cantares do Paúl, Arnaldo Saraiva, Niklaus Bein and Alex Sandro Malheiro Duration Museum version: 3h Stage version: 1h10 Presentation Museum Folkwang 19 & 20.08.2022 - Premiere (Museum Version) Essen, DE Fundação de Serralves, at the festival “The Museum as Performance” 10.09.2022 (Museum Version) Porto, PT Ausufern, Uferstudios, Tirana Open Studio Version 24.09.2022 Berlin, DE Teatro do Bairro Alto 9, 10 & 11.02.2023 - Premiere (Stage Version) Lisbon, PT Radialsystem 21 & 22.07.2023 (Stage Version) Berlin, DE Playground Festival, STUK 16 & 17.11.2023 (Stage Version) Leuven, BE Photo credits Tirana Stage: Diana Tinoco/TBA Photo credits Tirana Serralves: Dinis Santos Photo credits Tirana Folkwang Museum: Milan Daemgen