VOICES (2023)

Premiered at Kampnagel Hamburg 2023, VOICES was an immersive choral-polyphonic work that created alternative and personal hymns with 35 Hamburg (amateur) singers in many different voices. The monolithic idea of national anthems was split into infinity and a cosmic perspective was taken.

The choir was arranged like a maze. Singing very different songs simultaneously, individual voices came into focus, overlapping and mixing with other voices to form a kaleidoscopic soundscape. The songs that were sung were suggested by the singers themselves, that I composed into a piece according to a curatorial principle. The audience moved freely through this labyrinth of voices.

The theater as an old place of listening became a place of “other listening”.

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Dates
29.03.-01.04.23 Hamburg, Kampnagel
09.06.24 Hamburg, Fringify Festival

Co-production Kampnagel. Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Rudolf-Augstein-Stiftung, Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg.

Concept, scenography, director: Daniel Dominguez Teruel Performance by and with: Luka Lenzin, Timoleon Papadopoulos, Joelle Steurer, Frauke Aulbert, Ioulia Spanou, Hicham ElMadkouri, Israel Akpan Sunday Choir: Mascha Umbach, Solisten des Hamburger Knabenchor (Enno Gerhardt, Carl Liebig, Henrik Dreier), Tina Burova, Stefan Wirblatt, Solomiia Dyshliuk, Oumarou Neumann, Avraham Rosenblum, Peter Ruljevic-Oldak, Mehrnoush Sharifi, Julia Marie Englert, Maike Majewski, Alice Barkhausen, Ada Grüter, André Mulzer, Howard Bridges, Johanna von Renner, Junie Kuhn, Arnika Kuff, Walter H. Reynolds, Carlos Martínez Zapata, Annett Assmann, Jetzmann, Liv Neumann, Franziska Chokheli, Lukas Möller Choir director: Eva Spaeth Drone: Christoph Bernhard Production/Technical director: Florian Vitez Sound engineer: Benjamin Kurz Production assistant: Leonie Kellein Design: Friederike Wolf
Photos: Marianne Menke