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Hark

\ ‘härk \ : to pay close attention : LISTEN; to pay attention especially through the act of hearing

HARK! is based on Luísa Saraivas and Senem Gökçe Oğultekin‘s love of baroque music. Their singing bodies allow the audience to experience the sound in a new way. You hear what you see and see what you hear. The singing leaves traces in the room, traces of sound bodies. Together with the musicians Peter Rubel and Nathan Bontrager, they approach a common understanding of movement and sound and recall their personal experiences of listening to and learning music.
Hark! – Listen!
Henry Purcell‘s Hail! Bright Cecilia and the libretto by Nicholas Brady support the search for an acoustic body that hears, receives, reverberates and echoes.

A production from Luísa Saraiva and K3|Tanzplan Hamburg, co-produced by Teatro Municipal do Porto. Funded by NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW, Kunststiftung NRW, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Stadt Essen. With the support from PACT Zollverein.

Acknowledgements to: Jan Burkhardt, Joséphine Evrard, Tilman O’Donnell, Benjamin van Bebber