Pirou-pyro-silo-alouette

2021

Pirou-pyro-silo-alouette

(a combination of the words: pirouette, pyrotechnics, silhouette and the french-canadian children`s song “Alouette” (pronounced [alwɛt]) about plucking the feathers from a lark.)

Inspired by composer Halim El-Dahb`s approach to improvisation in music/dance as a mechanism for uplifting the world’s frequencies, Emma & Justin propose an open score to respond to the synesthesia of pneumatic and chromatic sound. Approaching these vibrational intentions, they will invoke Halim’s notations in an effervescent recycling and sampling of his music and color/drawings. They will illuminate a centrifugal yet cyclonic cypher, recorded in sand-steps, while introducing an ‘equestrian horse-back-ward-spiral-spider hustle in order to quickly shift one`s perspective’ that aims to complicate (deconstruct) and rearticulate gestural influences implied by the etymology and application of a ‘pirouette’. Rewriting a sampling of movements through a process of revisitation may include: strobo-wiggling, tilt-a-whirl soft-side-step swerling, POV-quick-switch, sideways spiralling and airy fluff poetry in the joints cos we are dancing on concrete.

Credits

  • Sound composition: Ethan Braun
  • Costume: Don Aretino

Exhibition History

  • INVOCATIONS
    2021
    Savvy Contemporary
    Berlin, DE

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Acknowledgements

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
INVOCATIONS CURATORIAL TEAM Kamila Metwaly, Lynhan Balatbat, Lili Somogyi
INVOCATIONS PRODUCTION TEAM Karen Heinze, Lia Milanesio
GENERAL MANAGEMENT Lema Sikod
MANAGEMENT Kamila Metwaly, Lynhan Balatbat, Lili Somogyi
COMMUNICATIONS Anna Jäger
GRAPHIC DESIGN Juan Pablo García Sossa
SOUND ENGINEER Olivia Oyama
LIGHT Sanja Gergoric
STREAMING Boiling Head Media