Michelle Moura: Overtongue – TANZTAGE BERLIN 2025
Michelle Moura:
Overtongue
Overtongue
German premiere
Language has infested the world. It is a virus that has spread everywhere and infiltrated us. In Overtongue, Michelle Moura plays with confusion of meaning and the disembodied voice, which can be read as a response to the information chaos and increasing polarization of our time. The choreographer uses ventriloquism as a tool to deal with an unusual sensuality of the voice. With an enraptured, misleading language and physical as well as vocal dissociations, she composes body landscapes that are characterized by the mechanical and grotesque. In the performance, the chimerical body is a network that is possessed by voices and speaking tongues – and at the same time becomes something else: perhaps alive, perhaps dead.
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CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE Michelle Moura DRAMATURGY, ASSISTANT Maikon K TEXTS Maikon K, Michelle Moura SOUND Kaj Duncan David LiGHt Annegret Schalke COSTUMES Thelma Bonavita STAGE Sonja Jokiniemi Consultation Alejandro Ahmed Thanks to the artists-collaborators Faetusa Tirzah, Fernando Marés, Greice Barros, Nadja Naira International Distribution Something Great
A production by Michelle Moura in co-production with CND Centre National de la Danse Pantin (FR) and Something Great (DE). With the kind support of Copel (BR), Profice Paraná (BR) and residencies at Lake Studios (DE), STUK (BE), Fabrik Potsdam (DE), Tanzhaus Zurich (CH), Traumabarundkino (DE) and Vooruit (BE). The 30th edition of Tanztage Berlin is a production of SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte and Förderband e.V./Berliner Spielplan Audiodeskription. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
Michelle Moura is Brazilian by birth, currently living in Berlin. For several years she had explored strategies to generate psychological and physical changes in minimal pieces. Nowadays, she adds new layers to her work, interested in artificiality and dissociation of elements, she manipulates movement, expression, sound and speech. Her creations have been presented in international dance and performing arts festivals including Impulstanz (AU), Panorama (BR), HAU – Hebbel am Ufer (DE) and La Biennale di Venezia (IT). As dancer, she has worked with Lea Moro (CH/DE), Wilhelm Groener (DE), Vincent Dupont (FR) among others. She was a co-founder and member of Caulifower Miniglobal Artistic Community (2005 – 2012) together with 7 other Brazilian artists. Her performance Overtongue, which was created as part of Tanztage Berlin 2021, was invited as one of 13 productions to the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022.