Barulhos
This title means Noises in Portuguese (Brazilian). It should be understood here as an expression from disadvantaged neighborhoods. So, when someone gives you the spiel, lies, or speak to say nothing, we say in Africa that he is making noise …
In Brazil, this word is used to refer to the din, sounds and noises of the city.
Usually, the noise is defined by the annoyance it produces, like what must be excluded from space or from everyday life. It is what must stop when the lights are turning off over the city and the silence must start reigning. It is what we refuse to listen at, like his neighbor noise, the underground subway, the people dancing… Noises of others!
But these noises, which draw a sound background and indicate the persistence of the world and the time passing, are for me vibrations and rumors of the world. They also express our society.
With Barulhos, I try to capture with the body, these fragments energy, these world cracks.
Bodies in reaction, in resonance
Sounds are first of all vibrations that travel through the air and thus reach our eardrums. They can also reach us underwater or underground, because vibrations travel through liquids and solids faster than through air. They alert us!
This is why even today, some people put their ears to the ground to listen to the sound of footsteps or a far away vehicle, long time before the wind blows it. And this is also why sound vibrations resonate in our bodies, which are mainly made up of water, passing through the skin and bones.
In Barulhos, I imagine a singular sound device spread in the space, that will bring an immersion feeling, a backwards and forwards movement between the inside and outside, the up and down, the day and night. It will wake up muscles, it will excite spirits and bodies, it will organize order and disorder ...
This device will be a real medium on which I will rely to imagine and think bodies in space. It will be a real partner on stage. By that, I mean that without it, I wouldn’t tell the same story. It will act as a scenography and create meaning.
More information on Malka Company website
Demo : May 12th 2022 l’Échappée
6 dancers on stage
Creation 2022
Dancers Antoine Bouiges, Hugo Ciona, Julia Derrien, Killian Drecq, Liesbeth Kiebooms, Jules Rozenwajn
Choreography Bouba Landrille Tchouda
Choreographic assistant Lyli Gauthier
Dramaturgy Dieudonné Niangouna
Sound composition Yvan Talbot
Set design Rodrigue Glombard
Sound creation Victor Severino
Lights Fabrice Crouzet
Costumes Claude Murgia
Production Compagnie Malka