Recap - songscapes and other narratives

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A performer squats in front of objects that she will soon be using in her artistic work: A painting, a pontic lyre and a laptop with music software.
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A performer sits in the center of the picture on the floor of a small room and plays a pontic lyre. Carpets are spread throughout the room and the audience is spread out around the edge of the room.
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In the center of the picture, a group of people are standing in front of the old signal box building at Zollverein, framed by bushes and trees at the edge of the picture.
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A group of people are standing outside in a herb garden. The performer has placed her hands in front of her mouth to amplify the sound and is singing fervently.
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Three performers sit on chairs in the green and raise their arms in a common beat. People sit and stand around them as they watch the performance.
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Three performers sit on chairs in the green and raise their arms in a common beat.
Photo: Dirk Rose
One performer lies half in the lap of the other, who pours water from a jug into her open mouth.
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Three performers on stage in blue and green light. At the front, two of them play music on electrically amplified metal strings. The third person moves in the background.
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Three performers inside a theatre black box are illuminated by blue and white light, which mixes with the red and orange marbled outfits. They stand separately from each other at different heights in different poses and make use of their voices.
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A woman on a stage at the microphone. She wears a purple robe and plays an Indian harmonium.
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A person walks between many small colorful puppets on the stage floor.
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The ›songscapes and other narratives‹ festival explores voices, stories and melodies that connect the past with the present. The individual works invite you to listen to forgotten, found and imagined stories and to trace the contradictory nature of human feelings of belonging and community, different motivations and forms of relationships.

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