Claire Vivianne Sobottke:
Strange Songs
Strange Songs
Sinister angel singing and seductive sirens: an excessive voicing act is created through a playful way of dealing with language and the voice in Strange Songs. On the search for the unknown in the voice, strange songs reveal themselves which result in a series of bizarre dances, situations and characters. The voice oscillates between personal and political, between prosody and whistleblower, love and terror, thus forming a sensual monologue in which the monstrous and marvelous equally share the same space.
CHOREOGRAphy, PERFORMANCE, cONcEPT Claire Vivianne Sobottke MUSIc Tian Rotteveel COMPANY MANAGEMENT ehrliche Arbeit- freies Kulturbüro
Produced by Claire Vivianne Sobottke in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Mayor of Berlin - Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs. Friendly supported by Pact Zollverein, Tanzhaus Zürich and HZT Berlin. Thanks to Vulva Club Berlin , Maria Scaroni, Meg Stuart and City Lights Berlin. media partner: taz.die tageszeitung
Claire Vivianne Sobottke is a choreographer, performer and dancer. Her work explores the body as a turbulent accumulation of concepts, collective and personal histories, traumata, memories, projections, identities and magic. The voice acts therein as political tool and poetic phenomenon. She develops sustainable strategies to subvert objectification and patriarchal hierarchy through a playful sexuality, sensuality, ecology and collectivity. Her work includes strange songs (2016), Velvet and WE BODIES (2019), Full Body Frontal (2022), Songs for Love and Rage (2018) and Amazonas (2017).