Past Project:

Songs for Captured Voices


VENUE:
RADIALSYSTEM

PREMIERE: 
FEBRUARY 12, 2021 

INVITED BY:
THEA RIEFLER, PHILA BERGMANN AND LAURE HEINDL

PERFORMANCE:
DJIBRIL SALL

CHOREOGRAPHY:
DJIBRIL SALL

MUSIC:
ENSEMBLE KNM BERLIN

COMPOSITION:
LAURE HEINDL

VOICE:
ELAINE MITCHENER

LIBRETTO:
GOKSU KUNAK

LIGHT:

SANDRA E. BLATTERER

COSTUME DESIGN:
NICHOLAS NAVARRO RUEDA

PHOTOGRAPHY & DOCUMENTATION:
RITA COUTO 

LENGTH:
60 MINUTES

Djibril was asked to choreograph for and perform in Songs for Captured Voices by Thea Reifler, Phila Bergmann, and Laure Heindl. This piece sought to unearth the names of those buried by (post) colonial European conquest. Through a libretto written by Gucci Chunk and sung by Elaine Mitchener, Sall engaged with the violence of forgotten names—refugees, prisoners of war—relegated to dusty archives by acting as a medium for their voices. Through this, Djibril asked how could he—as someone who is in relation to this complex web of geopolitics— be in conversation with this trauma?