We celebrate the women who have inspired songs.
We celebrate the women who have written songs.
We celebrate the women who cleaned the rooms in which songs were composed.
Drawing on nine pieces dedicated by jazz musicians to their partners or composed by women, dancer and choreographer Naïma Mazic will perform with percussionist and vibraphonist Evi Filippou and a record player.
The piece unfolds as a dramaturgy of a concert, yet between nine tracks, narratives emerge, passing through New York jazz clubs, Viennese bedrooms, and your living room. The performers’ bodies, movements, and musicality shift from tune to tune, from A side to B side, to contain a relationship that swings from intimate to professional and inspiring to possessive. One ballad composed to seduce- the melody of another love story.
Polyrhythmic choreographies will explore the concept of the 'muse', as well as the position of women as an artistic incentive and shed light on difficulties, struggles, disappointments and aspirations.
Direction, concept, choreography, dance: Naïma Mazic
Vibraphone, drums, percussion, musical arrangements: Evi Filippou
Music by Mary Lou Williams, Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, mathias rüegg, Lil’ Hardin Armstrong
Dramaturgy, co-concept: Maeve Johnson
Stage design, research: Hanna Naske
Concept development: Is Ali
Artistic consultant: Alaa Alkurdi
Costume design: Naïma Mazic
Costumes: Tamara Yael
Movement coaching: Cat Paz Jimenez
Outside Eyes: Sara Ostertag, Vera Rivas
Musicological support: Harald Kisiedu
Lighting design: Resi Hausner
Production management: more2rhythm, Naïma Mazic
Co-production with brut Wien
Developed at brut Wien, LAKE Studios Berlin, Bears in the Park, Porgy & Bess – Jazz & Music Club, supported by the Federal Chancellery for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
Thanks to Makisig Akin, Anya Cloud, Dr.Renée Gadsden, Robyn Schulkowsky, Golnar Shahyar, Imani Rameses, Meg Stuart and Doug Weiss.
Duration: 110 min
Language: English