Songbird is a performance combining contemporary choreography, practices of performing music and the tools of camp-aesthetics and drag. Inspired by the philosopher and poet Anne Carson’s essay ‘The Gender of Sound‘, the performance reflects on the identity of voice, choreographies of the vocal cords, femininity and vulnerability.

In the performance, ‘Songbird’ meets her audience through sounds, songs, vocal cords, lyrics, costumes and dance. How do choreographies of vocal cords spread through space? What do pitches, frequencies and modes of expression cause in the spectator? How do the use of voice and embodiment intersect? Music of the performance is by Keliel.