BABY CHOIR
A person of love is also a destoyer, craving to catch the softly burning flame of desire.
Baby Choir composes psychopoetic journeys decaying pleasures and sucking muscles. A space for tenderness and rotting, a dirty body surface and a shifting composite. Baby Choir provides a german audio description as integral part of the work. The audio description was developed within the working process of the piece.
It smells like liquid iron in here
And the sunny breeze
wiped my eyes with baby oil
It bursted like a bubble, a bunny sneeze, I didn’t realize it at first, it was so gentle
It glued me here, right next to the grass
The grass, excuse me, please,
do you remember it?
To decay like a fiery snail whose tail got run over by a bicycle — Squashed
I’m glossy, I’m gooey, I’m glued
cut nerves and tingling numbing yet I stretch onwards
My limbs are pulsating orange
and it smells like iron and vanilla pudding
Oily eyes
the warm and fuzzy haze arrives in waves
The humidity is curling up time and
sucking wrinkles on my fingertips
Thin soft skin by the bathtub rim
You only see the fruiting body, the mother
But the children are the hungry ones:
little sucklings, dissolving me
They bursted in me like a bunny sneeze
by Reetta Nummi / SITOI
pictured performers Suvi Kemppainen, Johanna Karlberg, Xenia Taniko, Josefine Mühle
pictured performers Josefine Mühle, Suvi Kemppainen, Xenia Taniko
concept, choreography Suvi Kemppainen, Josefine Mühle
creation, performance Xenia Taniko, Johanna Karlberg, Suvi Kemppainen, Josefine Mühle sound design Fjóla Gautadóttir (LEMONBOY), Reetta Nummi (SITOI) set, light David Eckelmann costume Moran Sanderovich audio description coordination Xenia Taniko audio description creation Pernille Sonne, Emmilou Rößling assistance Luna Madlena Khalo live description Emmilou Rößling dramaturgical workshop, outside eye Isabel Gatzke
photography Venla Helenius, Mayra Wallraff video documentation, trailer Christina Voigt production, care Tiphaine Carrère
A production by Josefine Mühle & Suvi Kemppainen in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE.
Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Media partner: taz.
premiere 16.12.2021 SOPHIENSÆLE, Berlin
pictured performers Johanna Karlberg, Xenia Taniko, Josefine Mühle