WORK SONGS – CREATION 2023

INTENTIONS

We sang in the fields. 

We sang in the factories. 

We sang on the boats.

To get into gear. To warm up the bodies. To forget the pain and taunt the foremen.To tell the locusts to skip a year. We sang and worked. And today we watch little lights dance on screens in warehouses, trying to make sense of it all. The way we work has changed, and the songs have disappeared. Where did all the singing go ? 

Brussels-based ensemble HYOID voices (dir. Fabienne Séveillac / Andreas Halling) is collaborating with French director Halory Goerger and American composer Christopher Trapani to create a piece that explores trade songs and work songs. To bring this material back to life. To dissect it, make it more complex, move it around. To confront it with new work environments, with other aspirations.