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, costuming 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 sounding and corporeality meet?

Choreography, performance, dance, sounds, lyrics: Tiia Kasurinen
Costume design: Freyja Taus
Light design: Sofia Linde
Set design consultant: Aino Koski
Production: Tiia Kasurinen, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance / Loisto, Inkonst, Kiasma