Eglė Budvytytė und Marija Olšauskaitė

Music in liquefaction, it bubbles, drips, and oozes: “I drink your juices, I suck up my dirt.” The technically alienated soundtrack drifts between different mindsets, tones, voices, and frequencies. It fluctuates between fierce instructions directed at listeners, silent moments, tender melodies, and intimate musings. The sound creates an enraptured atmosphere for a choreography unfolding on and around a trampoline. 

The performers’ movements respond to this soundscape, supporting the words with their
bodies and gazes. Images emerge, of growing closer and moving apart, a sequence of affection and disengagement that does not resolve in togetherness nor isolation. Song Sing Soil explores the permeability between shapelessness and form, between the realms of living and dying, between creating meaning and pulling it apart again. Everything flows, nothing remains – not even Elon Musk,
who is mentioned in the soundtrack.

Credits 

Concept and development: Eglė Budvytytė and Marija Olšauskaitė | Performed by and co – created with: Ming Jou Chen, Tomislav Feller, Tosca Knauf, Marilou Fortune | Voices and choreography: Eglė Budvytytė | Art direction: Marija Olšauskaitė | Sound design: Andreas Tegnander and Thessa Torsing

Choreographic advice: Noha Ramadan | Styling: Patricija Grabauskaitė | Light Design: Martynas Kazimierėnas

Commisioned by Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg | Supported by Mondriaan Funds | Thanks to BAU performance and dance residency, Amsterdam