Preparing an absurdist dinner with an anti-choir

𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗳𝘂𝗹 is an absurdist performance, led by vocalists and composers TiSiTi (Tara Reece, Ceola Tunstall-Behrens & Tisa World) in collaboration with Singing Club Rotterdam, an anti-choir for all voices. The performance invites the audience to take a seat among the performers and eat, sing, talk and break the rules over three courses of an evening banquet. As the dinner proceeds things get messy physically and sonically. Can you eat while singing? Can you gargle with sound? Can you sit still? Can you uphold dining conventions and etiquette? What happens when you don't? Trying to answer these questions together, food served here as both material and medium, playing an integral part in the vocal performance, serving as an instrument in challenging convention and etiquette, provoking disturbances and carrying messages that supported the narrative.The menu was developed from the premise of food as an instrument, accompanying the performers and contributing to the sound through crunch, squish or crumble. Everything was eaten with bare hands, generously displayed jellos carried messages to be shared, breads were there to mouffle, a vegetable garden added to the crunch, inviting all participants to a playful and an irreverent breach of conduct.

Presented at Worm UBIK  26th of May during O festival & 22 of June at Roodkapje.

photos: Diana Putavet, Thomas Walskaar, Ceola Tunstall-Beherens, Jip Moeken