(Germany)
The guest performance is realised in partnership and with the financial support of Goethe-Institut Bulgarien and the Ministry of Culture.
GLITCH CHOIR transfers the phenomenon of the glitch into the analog space, exploring how disruptions can open new forms of expression. At the heart of the piece is the recomposition of a song of lament, deconstructed and transformed through glitching. And through their dance, bodies and voices, the performers on the stage make the glitch audible, visible and palpable. Historically, public mourning has been a practice performed predominantly by women, often professional lamenters, who express grief on behalf of others. This tradition reveals the paradox of women being both permitted and burdened to translate private emotions into public mourning.
In thе performance, two female performers create a collective body of mourning, inviting the audience into a resonant, multivocal space. The inherent vocal distortions of lamentation become a medium for transforming individual grief into a collective glitch. What kind of choir emerges from the dissonance of these frequencies? This question guides the piece’s exploration of mourning as a generative disruption.
Drawing inspiration from Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism Manifesto (2013), the glitch is embraced as a moment of failure and interruption that leads to new possibilities. In GLITCH CHOIR, voice, body, and technology converge to examine grief as a glitching of norms and expectations.
By blurring the boundaries between digital and analog, public and private, GLITCH CHOIR positions lamentation as a feminist and collective act of rebellion. It reclaims the emotional and the disruptive as essential tools for connecting in a hybrid reality.
Deva Schubert (she/her) is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. In her artistic practice, she concentrates on experimentation with the voice. She studied dance in Salzburg, Kassel, Copenhagen and at the HZT Berlin as well as visual arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Her works explore the crossroads of dance, installation, and digital media, often highlighting the topics of intimacy, collectivity, and the synergies between transdisciplinary practices. They have been presented in renowned institutions such as Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Gessnerallee Zurich, Uppsala Art Museum, Radialsystem and the Sophiensæle in Berlin as well as at the Transart Festival in Bolzano.
Her piece Glitch Choir was awarded the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award in 2024.
Chihiro Araki (she/her) is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Berlin. After training at The Tokyo Ballet School and earning BA from Rambert School in London, she has danced with Carte Blanche / The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance and Johannes Wieland Company, as well as for Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Waldmann, Meg Stuart, Deva Schubert, Lina Gómez, Sergiu Matis, and musical artist Pan Daijing.
Davide Luciani is a Berlin-based musician and artist working across music and media arts. His solo work crafts sensitive environments where perception hinges on sonic tension. This exploration extends into his research, treating sound as a sculptural force—bending pressure, density, and emptiness into compositional tools. Luciani’s work unfolds in textural collisions—erratic yet precise, visceral yet formal.
His solo and collaborative works have been presented in various contexts, including Kraftwerk Berlin (DE), LaBiennale (IT), Ultima Festival (NO), Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at ZHdK (CH), Triennale Milano (IT), and CAAA Guimarães (PT).
Hanna Kritten Tangsoo (EST) is a lighting designer and choreographer based in Berlin, Germany. She studied Dance in Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy in Estonia 2011-2014 and BA Dance, Context, Choreography in Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz/ HZT Berlin 2014-2017. Parallel to her studies in HZT Hanna Kritten started to discover lighting design. In 2021 she was selected to the ETC Electronic Theater Controls Ltd Fred Foster Student Mentorship Program International branch. Since 2017 she works as a freelance artist in both dance and lighting. Hanna Kritten is interested in the relationship between body and light.
The international program of Antistatic Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance is organized is organized by the “Brain Store Project” foundation and the “Nomad Dance” association, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Sofia Municipality – Calendar of Cultural Events, Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, the research project DanceMap funded by “Horizon Europe” Programme of the European Union, and in partnership with RCSI “Toplocentrala”, and Academia Gallery of the National Academy of Art.
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