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
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?
