This performance is part of the FAROUT Live Arts Festival program, which this year comes in collision with Linecheck: access requires a separate ticket on DICE, with discounts soon available for Linecheck BASE Full Pass and Thursday Single Night ticket holders.

BLEAH!!! is a word that does. It creates a volume in the space between the palate and the lip, it produces a sound that already means. In Lucia Marcucci’s visual poem of the same name, this gesture-sound detaches itself from the body’s pronunciation and spills across the page, disrupting the perceptual expectation of hearing it, in order instead to be spoken, seen, read. It is a commentary that becomes an artwork.

Studying it together. This invitation is taken up by the collaboration between choreographer and dancer Annamaria Ajmone and musician Laura Agnusdei, who are working together for the first time. Lucia Marcucci’s imagery functions as an icebreaker, a spark for dialogue, the beginning of an encounter. It is a starting point that shapes a process of research and creation, which then takes its own course.

BLEAH!!! returns to bodies and their objects. It disarticulates the typical performativity of the roles of dancer and musician and conceives a landscape to be created together, through the shared channel of breath and the objects that are at hand. Ajmone and Agnusdei experiment with a form of writing that subverts and redistributes authorial functions. Dance makes sound, and music dances; sound choreographs space, movement accompanies it, reshapes it, multiplies it. The volumes and gestures of the saxophone, of the body, of breaths and drums, invent acoustic zones of encounter and relation, where architectures and temperatures—poetic and affective—shift and vary.

Only one area remains untouched, still, like a room.At its center, a console where vinyl records spin, the bodies sit close and activate a set of sounds and worlds already known, which are then recombined. A place apart, where one meets again, where it’s possible to pause and comment on the rest of the work—or of the world.