CRY OF THE SOIL, Contribution to the research led by Dorota Michalak & Maud  Buckenmeyer, Podlasie, Poland, 2023

Interdisciplinary field research into four different folk music practices: Ahwash song-dances from Amazzer, Eastern European singing from Białowieża, Gnawa from Essaouira and Houariyat from Marrakesh. It is instigated to hear and feel from within the flesh of the world we are part of. Within the project, we facilitate collective processes of learning, provoking collective dancing and musicing across arbitrary and fenced borders. We are interested in folk music’s cathartic, rebellious and relation-building functions and potentials.

Artistic concept, facilitation & research: Doom Mood (Dorota Michalak & Maud Buckenmeyer)
Research: Otucha Collective (Ola Zielińska, Agnieszka Bułacik), Róż Różyński, Borys Słowikowski, Witold Roy Zalewski, Michael Castalan, Aziza Bouizedkane, Hassan Larsson, Rie Bonsai, Afous Afous, Karim Alikan, Rachid Amrani,
Shaymae Maallema, Essaid Rhat, and more
Teachers: Kasba Houariyat, Hicham Ounamir, Touda Ibourk, Khadija Ibourk, Ayoub El Ayady, Śpiewaczki z Dobrowody, Grażyna Chyra
Partners: Kultura Kresu, Joanna Zielińska & Barış Öktem, Queens Collective, Café Essaouira, Cafe Clock

Funded by: Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland

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