Réverbérations - Etude 8

Réverbérations is the study of a duel between a body and a drum set. It is also an encounter with several women drummers from different cultural and musical backgrounds. Through a collection of stories about their relationships with music, the instrument and the craft, Aina Alegre creates a new drumming fiction. Their words and descriptions are absorbed and transported into the terrain of performance. Constructing a physical and sonic experience, Alegre subverts the notion of "beating." Blurring the lines between the dancer's body and the drummer's body, the piece uses live sound, light and movement to create an interactive performance that prompts different relationships to percussion, endurance and reverberation. Exchange, transmission and speech are the driving forces behind these choreographic fictions and practices.