Every Move a Sound - On the Intricacies of Memory is a  dance concert and a music choreography

exploring the notions of trace and memory.

We move and sound. We wear sound and motion sensors. Movements and

sounds are joined and recorded as composite traces. Continuously.

Everybody yarns their sonic filament retraceable by anybody. Anytime. Retracing

is resounding is reinscribing. One’s own or another’s trace. Inevitably. We suffuse

the performance space with remnants of our actions. This is how the past

remains with us. Forever. Every action constraining the future. Becoming an

obstacle or be turned into a potential. The denser the traces, the harder it

becomes to read them.

In this environment we engage in extended and repetitive improvisatory processes,

fathoming the potential of the collective and ambient instrument that we

have been developing over the last years, establishing a performance practice in

which movement and sound can coexist without exploiting or betraying one

another.

With Every Move A Sound, choreographers Anna Nowak and Alexander Gottfarb

and sound artists Gerhard Eckel and David Pirro created and interactive

space which the performers can play as a musical instrument with their bodies

and movements. Our bodies are very complex interfaces that constantly loop

input and output, almost simultaneously in an ongoing dialogue with our environment

and other bodies. In this dialogue we leave audible and inaudible

traces of energy which can be picked up by ourselves or others to be re-activat

ed, transformed or erased.

As the subtitle, On the Intricacies of Memory, suggests this space also reveals

the processes of remembering and forgetting. Neuroscience studies how our

memories are patterns of connections between neurons in the brain, which are

created both by sensorial experiences and repetitive actions in an infinite process

of transformation: “Every sensation that we remember, every thought that

we think, transforms our brains by altering the connections within that vast

network (of neurons). By the time you get to the end of this sentence, your brain

will have physically changed.” (Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein. The

Art and Science of Remembering Everything, 2011)

Guy Cools, dramaturg