Radio-Choreography: Yellalah – Sound Installation and Performance

Radio-Choreography: Yellalah is a multichannel sound installation and event series by Netta Weiser and guests. This 3-day event explores how embodied knowledge is transmitted across generations and communities. We ask: How can we listen to multiple histories we carry in our bodies? How can we form new kinships through staging sonic possible worlds? 

Radio-Choreography is a long-term artistic research project exploring the transformation of dance into sound, the relations between live broadcasting and muted histories, as well as acts of listening as modes of being together. In Radio-Choreography: Yellalah, we transform the Vierte Welt into a performative sound space and living archive — a resonating landscape of diasporic body memories. A multichannel sound installation interweaves sounds of ancestral Moroccan dance, blessings for fertility in Judeo-Arabic and choreographic poetry. Listeners are invited to move through the installation, experience intimate encounters with subversive forms of knowledge, unheard voices and invisible bodies. 

The installation is activated with a series of performative interventions, live radio broadcasts, workshops and listening acts, offering multiple perspectives on the relationships between listening, touch, and collectivity. We understand touch and listening as practices of radical openness, where the body is porous, vulnerable, continually encountering and resonating with alterity. Taking a queer-feminist stance, we experiment in new possibilities of being-with, where listening and touch become modes of recognizing difference and connection beyond surfaces, creating a space for hybrid identifications and performance of empathy.

On Friday, Nora Amin and Netta Weiser will perform within the sound space of the installation. Through movement, voice, touch, and embodied listening, they create choreographies of absent and present bodies, performing intimacy and transgenerational alliances. The performance will be followed by a conversation with the artists.

Nora Amin is a choreographer, performer, author & scholar. She lives in Berlin since 2015 where she’s been practicing her choreographic signature through community dance workshops, professional contemporary dance workshops, solo performances, academic lectures/seminars and authored books. She holds a PhD in cultural policy and the performing arts (Hildesheim university), and is author of “Migrating the Feminine” & “Dance of the Persecuted” (MSB Matthes & Seitz, 2018-2021). She is a board member of the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute, member of the scientific committee of the Barba Varley Foundation, and currently co-curator of the platform “Healing across Imaginative Spaces” by Ringlokschuppen an der Ruhr.

Netta Weiser is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin, working across performance, sound installation, and experimental radio. In 2019, she established the long-term artistic research project Radio-Choreography, which explores the poetics and politics of transforming dance into sound, the relationship between live broadcasting and muted histories, and acts of listening as modes of being together. Her work has been presented internationally, most recently at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, Onassis Stegi Athens, WDR, Villa Medici Rome, Tanznacht Berlin, CCA Glasgow, and TONSPUR Micro Museum for Sound at MQ Vienna. In 2024, the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe presented her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Alongside her artistic practice, Weiser regularly teaches at the Klangzeitort Institute for New Music in Berlin and the Universität der Künste Berlin.


Credits:

Radio-Choreography: Yellalah

Multichannel sound installation and event series by Netta Weiser

Artistic director, research, concept and composition: Netta Weiser


Sound design and technical director: Giovanni Verga


Texts, performative collaboration and voice: Nora Amin


Research collaboration and vocals: Vanessa Paloma Elbaz


Choreographic collaboration: Shira Eviatar


Scenography and dramaturgy: Annett Hardegen


Production: Mira Hirtz


In cooperation with reboot.fm


Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds

The first iteration of this sound installation was commissioned by the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe.

Foto: Installation view of Radio-Choreography: Acts of Transmission at Badischer Kunstverein, 2024, ©Netta Weiser, Photo by Felix Grünschloss