Gegen die Hörigkeit im Hören*

* Against the obedience in hearing

What if the voice is not just a carrier of meaning but a choreographic force, a movement in itself? What if the act of listening is not passive reception but an embodied, political, and relational practice? Jule Flierl traces a path through contemporary voice performance, dance, protest, and interdependent artistic practices to explore how voice and listening co-constitute each other, both on stage and in the world.

Jule Flierl

essay 15.12.2025

‘We have so many voices inside us’

What happens when we breathe together? Simon Baetens speaks with singer, dancer, and facilitator Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias about how the voice lives in the body, and how singing together can become a space for trust, curiosity, and transformation. From his early days in school choirs to conducting, dancing, and working with fascia, Veyret-Logerias’s practice is one of radical presence. Over the last 15 years, he has contributed to a vast number of projects and collaborations. What are the recurring threads he sees in each of them? In this interview, he sheds light on concepts and co-variation, amateurism, and on why the most important work is often about not knowing.

Simon Baetens

interview 15.12.2025

A ‘New Vocality’?

Approaching two multivocal groups: YouYou Group and Glossa (Γλωσσα)

Without knowing about each other, several ensembles have formed in Central Europe in recent years that bear striking similarities: groups of people who work experimentally with the voice, were founded by women, function as collectives, and often perform beyond the classical concert stage. Friedemann Dupelius explores the question of whether one can speak of a ‘new vocality’ in this context. If so, does it encompass only technical and compositional aspects of vocal sound, or also social, psychological, and political ones?

Friedemann Dupelius

essay 15.12.2025

Notes on Sound

What is the power of sound? How can it transform a theatre space into a world where the auditory takes on a life of its own? Fourteen artists share brief, inspiring statements on the role and significance of sound in contemporary performing arts.

Lieven Dousselaere, Hannes Seidl, Anne van de Star, Alain Franco, Mareike Dobewall, Marcela Lucatelli, Sébastien Roux, Kent Olofsson, Yann Leguay, Marijn Ottenhof, Travis Just, Julia Mihály, Berno Odo Polzer, Peter Lenaerts, Billy Bultheel

artistic contribution 15.12.2025

Chiririn

Emi Kodama

artistic contribution 15.12.2025

Artists’s Entrance: Alesandra Seutin

In Artists’ Entrance, we ask artists about their life and work. Today: choreographer, performer, and director Alesandra Seutin. Alesandra’s distinctive multidisciplinary approach weaves together movement, text, and music to explore identity, memory, and the politics of the body.

Alesandra Seutin

interview 13.12.2025

The erotics of asymmetry

Chloe Chignell & Amina Szecsödy’s Shadow Text brings Monique Wittig’s lesbian-feminist epic Les Guérillères to the stage.

Can a dance piece read a text rather than reproduce it in stage form, as in the classic sense of adaptation? The performance Shadow Text by Chloe Chignell and Amina Szecsödy seeks to bring feminist philosopher and writer Monique Wittig’s novel Les Guérillères to the stage. Wittig’s novel, from 1969, — now considered part of the feminist and lesbian canon Feminist critic Mary McCarthy for example, called the book ’the only work of beauty to come out of the Women’s Lib.’1 The novel is a cyclical narrative, in which collective life is continuously destroyed and rebuilt. Wittig’s book is structured as a triptych and in this sense resembles epic more than the conventional novel. Wittig’s novel may be perfect for the stage, as it is concerned with citation, cyclic movement, non-linear time, and the materiality of the body.  

Tessel Veneboer

essay 12.12.2025