AGORAPHONIE

A babble of voices, the roar of engines, chirping birds, rustling leaves - Agoraphonie is a dance installation that deals with urban sounds. Sounds are pressure waves. They penetrate and deform the space, causing air, objects, bodies and eardrums to vibrate, compressing and stretching. They cause bodies to proliferate into the space and occupy it until they fade away. To what extent are the political struggles for space reflected in the sounds of the city? How are they played out in them? In Agoraphonie, four dancers equipped with megaphones use their bodies to listen. They become soft, resonate with sounds and amplify them, they allow the pressure waves to become visible or stiffen and lean against the everyday noise of the city. In ancient Greece, the agora was the central festival, meeting and market place of a city and the central hub of negotiations in public life. Agoraphonie is an attempt to allow a different perspective on the urban soundscape in three public squares in Vienna.

Concept: Julian Siffert
Dance: Gabriele Seeleitner, Ella Necker, Anne Mégier, Christa Stöffelbauer

Unterstützt von MA7 Stadtteilkultur / Interkulturalität sowie den Bezirkskulturförderungen Wien.