2023

habanera – an interval, a cage, a spell

Framework:
in practice
Title:
habanera – an interval, a cage, a spell
Year:
2023
Material:
operatic voice instrument, piano, black queer flesh
Technique:
sound, film, performance
Duration:
39 minutes
Production:
partially developed during the stay at the Artistic Residency Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (DE)
Image:
still images from the short version of the film

Following research on operatic structures and the performer’s engagement with limits imposed on characters in Western European opera, in practice: habanera presents an excerpt of exercises leading toward the composition of the EP and concert lecture-performance “Just Another Shadie Bitch” (Epilogue): Plenty of Nothing. The work explores voice as material, instrument, and relational practice within inherited musical forms.

leo, in practice - habanera: an interval, a cage, a spell, 2023 (excerpt), 7 minutes