Xe by SJ Music

Collaboration Sabio Janiak and Soboproduction
https://sobopro.com/xe/

Xe, Ze, Ve, E, Te, Sie, Thon, Tey, Ey, Per, Peh, Fae….
Language creates awareness and reinforces stereotypes, but what if the vocabulary is not enough to describe one’s identity? Woman, man, both or neither… It is difficult to describe in words what have long been realities. Gender queer, fluid, LGBTIQ+, the conservative division of roles based on biological sex is far outdated. However, do our language and togetherness follow this change?
What do words do to us and what influence does language have on gender orientation? How do we experience and perceive people in relation to the pronouns used? How do certain meanings of a word become established and what cultural, political and ethical influence do these have on us and our bodies?

Gender socialisation as a construct of society and the inexhaustible existence of each of us beyond the physical body form the central aspects that are the focus of this project. The dance installation in the rooms of the old Stromwerk and the interactive dance film deal with these themes in an trans-disciplinary and multimedia way.

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Aid Programme Dance.
Furthermore supported and funded by the Kulturamt Mannheim and the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.

The project was partly created at the Inter-Actions Studio in Heidelberg. #StudioActions

Many thanks to our cooperation partners Inter-Actions Studio, Dance Professional Mannheim, Theater Felina-Areal, Nachmarkt am Stromwerk.
The production and film consists of 7 interrelated parts and was created in collaboration with the artists. The separate scenes can be watched in any order:

XE [zi:] Opening – João Kreth d’Orey

Lost in Translation – Felix Chang

The Living Room – Marco Labellarte and Cecilia Ponteprimo

Deep Blue Sea – Miriam Markl

Re-birth – Anthony Selwyn

Projections – Lorenzo Ponteprimo

The Gathering – Miriam Markl, Lorenzo und Cecilia Ponteprimo, Felix Chang, Anthony Selwyn, Marco Labellarte, João Kreth d’Orey, Sabio Janiak

Sound: Sabio Janiak

Dramaturgy: Angela Wendt

Lighting and set design: Mireille Solomon

Costume design: Susana Florêncio

Technology: AMV Audiomedia

Graphics: Petra Schreiner

Tracklist

1.	Open Mantra	6:25

2.	All One	10:11

3.	Newspaper	7:24

4.	First Step	11:24

5.	Perception	7:32

6.	Old Radio	8:03

Credits

released January 2, 2023

Written, produced and played by Sabio Janiak

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