To Sing the Wind

In She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore, the voice is treated as both a choreographic and political medium. The performance unfolds as an evening-length solo through movement, vocal experimentation, spoken text, live piano, and choreographic scores. Shifting between choreography, concert, lecture, invocation, satire, and embodied excess, the piece moves across different performative registers where voice and body continuously transform one another.

At its core, the work examines a recurring historical mechanism: the moment when women’s perception, expression, and speech are reframed as exaggeration, instability, or madness. Throughout the work, figures that might resemble or remind you of Echo, Ophelia, Medusa, and the "hysterical woman" appear as unstable presences. Rather than representing these figures as characters, the performance treats them as inherited cultural images that have shaped how women are expected to sound, speak, and be heard. These archetypes are inhabited, distorted, and recomposed to expose both their structural violence and their disruptive potential. Within this framework, the scream appears not as confession, but as a method.

Developed in a political moment marked by the resurgence of patriarchal imaginaries and renewed suspicion toward women’s authority, the project situates these dynamics within a longer cultural and familiar lineage. The voice alternates between unamplified fragility and operatic projection, staging a darkly comical and grotesque landscape that leaves the audience sitting within the echo of what has been invoked.

Concept, choreography, performance: Júlia Rúbies Subirós
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejić
Sound design, composition and performer: Milan Van Doren
Sound research: Myriam Pruvot
Lighting design: Leticia Skrycky
Costume design: Stef Assandri
External eye: Carolina Mendonça, Dagmar Teurelincx.
Voice coaching: Jule Flierl (research phase), noela covelo velasco.

Production: Júlia Rúbies Subirós
Co-production: deSingel (On/Off Spaces), Workspacebrussels, KAAP, Kunstencentrum BUDA, La Caldera
Residencies: (ROSAS Artist in Residence 2026), Workspacebrussels, deSingel, Kunstenwerkplaats, CAMPO, Kaaitheater, La Poderosa Supported by: VG Research Beurs (Flemish Government, Belgium)

Acknowledgements: Ezster Némethi, Jimena Perez Salerno, Vera Tussing, Itxaso Corral, Porter Grubbs

With the support of the Flemish Community (Vlaamse Gemeenschap)