This workshop explores expression through body sounds such as cries, yawns, gasps, swallows, and sighs. Participants use the strict rules of spoken language to organise these sounds into precise choreographic scores. By placing raw physical sounds within a rigid system, the workshop creates an unfamiliar way of speaking that interrupts the expected order of everyday communication.
The workshop is aimed at performers, musicians, choreographers, and performance directors interested in exploring how text can function as a score for creating and performing sound. Working in small groups, participants experiment with simple scores, share their results, and gradually develop more complex compositions. They leave the workshop with practical tools for creating and using text-based scores in their own artistic practice.
Diane Mahín (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performances in which sound and physicality are the driving forces. Her works focus on bodysounds (guts, growls, cries, breaths) which she uses to create performative codes that dissect the learned behaviors of an unbearable society. Her work physically submerges the audience into the collective unease and dark absurdity of our current reality, seeking a state of movement within doom. She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, and Sandberg Institute, and her works have been shown in visual arts, performance, and new music contexts.