Radio-Choreography: Yellalah – Workshop

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.

The event series culminates with a workshop on touch as a community practice, led by the SKINSHIP collective. In this workshop we explore how touch serves as a source of connection and belonging in a community. We establish a language and sensitivity around individual needs and wishes, and create an embodied, playful way of getting to know each other. We sharpen our senses by slowing down and listening. How can embodied listening be a practice for building trust? How can individual desires nurture the collective body?

We will work in pairs and trios, guided by simple exercises on how to give and receive attentive, consensual touch. This workshop focuses on care and connection and is not for sexual exploration. Everyone is welcome; no previous experience is needed.

SKINSHIP is a touch-based collective for queer, trans, non-binary, gender-fluid, agender, gender-expansive, and femme communities + friends. It focuses on restructuring and re-prioritizing the body as a vehicle for connection and safety, cultivating touch, pleasure, sexuality, playfulness, consent, boundaries, and friendship as forms of kinship activism.


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


Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds