Brouhaha

BROUHAHA takes a hybrid form, flirting with the principles of sound installations and stealing from the intensity of trance rituals.

Mixing chimeric movement material with haunting vocalisations and cavernous soundscapes – it places the audience in an abstract and timeless sea of swirls and loose harmonies, resisting any settled interpretations.

Three performers, not bound by touch or sight but by a common sense of presence and listening, migrate together in space. Subsumed into a larger mess they glide around each other and drift, connecting through sighs, whimpers and chants. Their disjointed mass journeys seamlessly, leaving traces of confused clamour as it absorbs the viewer in an ambiguous and unsettling chaos.

BROUHAHA is the fruit of a mature collaboration with choreographer Lola Maury. Seven speakers, some in full view and others hidden on the dancer's bodies, make sounds travel and immerse the audience in moving soundscapes. The relationship between performers and sound is porous; the voices within the sound score imperceptibly manifest in the voices on stage and vice versa, keeping the origin of sounds unpredictable and woolly.

Part of the audiences are placed on the right and left edges of the stage to create an intimate tri-frontal configuration.