September 24th – 28th, 2024 charleroi danse / la raffinerie, Brussels
October 12th – 13th, 2024 Teatro Argentina, Rome
October 17th – 19th, 2024 mercat de les flors, Barcelona
November 6th, 2024 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
November 19th – 23th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
December 11th, 2024 Concertgebouw Brugge, Brugge
December 14th, 2024 Leietheater, Deinze
90 minutes
The Gender of Sound
On a selection of thirteen tracks by women, his dance spares us the illustration. Instead, it acts as a filter to enhance our listening experience.
Léa Poiré
‘Redundant.’ Or more bluntly: ‘Irritating noise.’ This is how the voice of the woman has often been considered from ancient Greek times to today.
VOICE NOISE is inspired by Anne Carson’s essay ‘The Gender of Sound’ (1992), in which she exposes how patriarchal culture has sought to silence women by ideologically associating women’s sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
In VOICE NOISE, some innovative, unknown and/or forgotten women’s voices from the past hundred years of music history are given a stage. By doing so, Jan Martens takes another step in his efforts to shape an alternative canon.
Six dancers respond to recordings in which the human voice can be heard in various guises: humming, soothing, shrieking, whispering, singing. Gradually, they discover their own voice.