Four women prepare the mysterious food of a banquet. They accomplish the gestures of a ritual. There is a table, some wine and glasses, a kitchen knife. All rituals that celebrate a ritual of passage – be it from life to death, from youth to grown-up, from grown-up to old age, from solitude to being two or more – are sometimes accompanied by song and dance, but always by food and drink. This performance uses the art of the mouth in all its aspects: eating, drinking, singing and talking; it entertains us around the universal convivial universe of a table.
Poetry is the point of departure to confront and associate the abstraction of musical language with the semantics of text. This work wishes to make an alliance between theatre and music, singing and spoken voices, silence and gestures. It creates a visual space for music, treating movement and text as a sequence of notes, with their rhythm, accent and colouring. The performance is built around music a capella, from polyphonic singing to the scansion of spoken voice.
