Address: ul. "Emil Berzinski" 5, 1408 Yuzhen, Sofia | Event Map | Venue Accessibility
Language: English

Oratoria is a contemporary performance that creates a neo-dramaturgy consisting of music articulations based on a variety of genres ranging from opera to trash and hardcore by using only the intonation and sound extraction of speech. It choreographs a contemporary dance from the gestures we use while speaking. The project traces human verbal development solely through the non-rational, automatic and affective aspects of speech - intonation (music) and gesture (dance). Thus Oratoria ‘reconstructs; a universal ‘authentic’ proto-language, that everyone can understand, and opens up a space for research into the causes and the functions of speech as a human phenomenon.

Duration: 50 minutes 
Genre: Vocal performance 
Price: 20 лв. (€10)

Credits: 

The performance is realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria and ‘Etud’ Foundation, co-production with Toplocentrala.

Written and directed by Anna Dankova
Actors: Vassilia Drebova, Galiya Kostadinova, Alexander Gochev, Georgi Naldjiev 
Speech collage: Yoana Robova
Costumes: Pola Popova
Photography: Boriyana Pandkova

Get in touch

Production contact : Anna Dankova
Status: Available for local versions and ready for touring. 

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