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Vocalist, composer, artist
Stine Janvin


Prelude

Ula Sickle, Stine Janvin Motland & Yann Leguay
Per­for­mance 55min (2014)

In Pre­lude Ula Sickle and Yann Leguay work for the first time with the Nor­we­gian vo­cal­ist Stine Jan­vin Mot­land. With her use of ex­tended vocal tech­nique, Mot­land ex­plores the lim­its of the human voice, en­ter­ing into di­a­logue with the am­pli­fied el­e­ments pre­sent on­stage. The hum of elec­tric­ity, the buzz of the lights, dig­i­tal noise, feed­back and Mot­land's eerie vo­cals all cre­ate an in­tri­cate mu­si­cal score be­tween the or­ganic and the in­or­ganic, the human and the dig­i­tal.

Pre­lude arises out of the re­flec­tion that the body is rapidly be­com­ing an ex­ten­sion of tech­nol­ogy and not the in­verse - tech­nol­ogy as an ex­ten­sion of the body. Cur­rent eco­log­i­cal in­ter­est in no­tions of 're­silience', as op­posed to 'sus­tain­abil­ity', posits a world in which rad­i­cal and un­ex­pected change will be­come the norm, re­quir­ing us to de­velop our abil­i­ties to adapt rather than im­pos­ing our own order on an un­sta­ble en­vi­ron­ment. In this sense, Pre­lude is both an in­tro­duc­tion and a warn­ing call: to what ex­tent can we adapt or ‘tune’ our­selves into, or are ir­rev­o­ca­bly trans­formed by, the en­vi­ron­ments we have our­selves cre­ated.


Cre­ation Ula Sickle, Stine Jan­vin Mot­land, Yann Leguay Per­for­mance Stine Jan­vin Mot­land Stage di­rec­tion, chore­og­ra­phy Ula Sickle Live sound Yann Leguay Vocal arrange­ments Stine Jan­vin Mot­land Light­ing de­sign Ula Sickle & Elke Ve­r­achtert Ex­ec­u­tive pro­duc­tion Car­a­van Pro­duc­tion (Brus­sels, BE) Co­pro­duc­tion Kaaithe­ater (Brus­sels, BE), MA Scène Na­tionale – Pays de Montbéliard (FR) Res­i­den­cies (re­search) Work­space­brus­sels (BE), PACT Zol­lverein (Essen, DE), STUK Arts Cen­tre (Leu­ven, BE), BUDA Arts Cen­tre (Ko­r­trijk, BE) Res­i­den­cies (cre­ation) Kaaithe­ater (Brus­sels, BE), STUK (Leu­ven, BE), MA Scène Na­tionale – Pays de Montbéliard (FR) With the sup­port of the Flem­ish Com­mu­nity Com­mis­sion of the Brus­sels Cap­i­tal Re­gion (tbc) Thanks to Anne-Cather­ine Kunz, Tamara Milla-Vigo, David Hel­bich, Boglarka Borc­sok, Elisa Yvelin, Anna Cristina Ve­lasquez and all those who par­tic­i­pated in the re­search process.


Per­for­mance Première 6 & 7 No­vem­ber, 2014
Kaaithe­ater, Brus­sels BE