UK Premiere

Begüm Erciyas (Berlin / Brussels)

Voicing Pieces

Friday 18 October 2019 – Sunday 20 October 2019

110 Northwood Street
Birmingham, B3 1SZ United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut London

30 mins

In Voicing Pieces, your own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, you become spectator of your own voice.

Aren’t our own voices always inauthentic and uncanny? Who is speaking, when your own voice speaks? Rather than recognizing yourself in the stranger, Voicing Pieces is an invitation to recognize the stranger
in yourself.

Please not the venue of this performance has changed to what was previously announced. This performances will now take place at AE Harris.

Concept – Begüm Erciyas
Realisation – Begüm Erciyas and Matthias Meppelink
Dramaturgy – Marnix Rummens
Live-operation – Eric Desjeux, Marc Melià, Begüm Erciyas
Text – Matthias Meppelink, Begüm Erciyas, Jacob Wren
Set Realisation – Tim Vanhentenryk, Lena Buchwald, Barbara Greiner
Artistic Collaboration – Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Production Management/ PR – Barbara Greiner
Production – Begüm Erciyas, Platform 0090
Co-production – wpZimmer (Antwerp), STUK (Leuven), Tanzfabrik Berlin/Tanznacht Berlin
Research support/residency – Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), Q-O2 Workspace for experimental music and sound art (Brussels), FrankfurtLAB, Tanzrecherche NRW, Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
Supported by – Hauptstadkulturfonds Berlin

‘It is a long journey, although it lasts only half an hour, which eventually brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And it will never sound the same again. Magical.’

– deMorgen

Fierce Says

A performance in which you become the performer, for an audience of yourself. This is a beautiful and unusual installation that we also found strangely empowering. Be sure to book quick as slots are extremely limited.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9 – £9.00

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Sold out!

Sunday 20 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Tickets not on sale

UK Premiere

Tania El Khoury (Beirut)

The Search for Power

Wednesday 16 October 2019 – Saturday 19 October 2019

110 Northwood Street
Birmingham, B3 1SZ United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Shubbak Festival. Commissioned by ANTI Festival & Shubbak Festival. Supported by British Council, Arts Council England & brut Wien.

60 mins (approx)

Sold out

On a night with a sudden electricity outage in Beirut, the artist and her historian husband promised each other to research the history of power outages in Lebanon. They went on a journey collecting documents. Some were simply not accessible. The paper trail led them to archives in five different countries. They reached as far back as 1906, when electricity was first introduced to Beirut. They found a transnational story involving businessmen, politicians, warlords, multi-national corporations, and colonial powers. They discovered traces of everyday acts of survival, resistance, and sabotage by workers and electricity users. They decided to trace their steps back and share it in this new play.

The Search for Power is a new theatre show inviting the audience to look into archival documents, inaccessible knowledge, and a personal quest for revenge.

Work – Tania El Khoury in collaboration with Ziad Abu-Rish
Performance – Tania El Khoury, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Petra Abousleiman
Research – Ziad Abu-Rish with support from Owain Lawson
Graphic Design – Jana Traboulsi
Production Design – Petra Abousleiman
Sound Design – Ali Beidoun
Dramaturgy – Deborah Pearson
UK Producer – Karl Taylor

Fierce Says

Tania was last at Fierce when we commissioned her installation 'Gardens Speak' in 2014 which became a major international success touring to 18 countries worldwide. Tania is a vital voice in contemporary theatre and we’re honoured to be partnering with Shubbak Festival to host the UK premiere of this unique, immersive story.

Details

Wednesday 16 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

Thursday 17 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

Friday 18 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

UK Premiere

Begüm Erciyas (Berlin / Brussels)

Voicing Pieces

Friday 18 October 2019 – Sunday 20 October 2019

110 Northwood Street
Birmingham, B3 1SZ United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut London

30 mins

In Voicing Pieces, your own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, you become spectator of your own voice.

Please not the venue of this performance has changed to what was previously announced. This performances will now take place at AE Harris.

‘It is a long journey, although it lasts only half an hour, which eventually brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And it will never sound the same again. Magical.’

– deMorgen

Fierce Says

A performance in which you become the performer, for an audience of yourself. This is a beautiful and unusual installation that we also found strangely empowering. Be sure to book quick as slots are extremely limited.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9 – £9.00

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Sold out!

Sunday 20 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Tickets not on sale

UK Premiere

Tania El Khoury (Beirut)

The Search for Power

Wednesday 16 October 2019 – Saturday 19 October 2019

110 Northwood Street
Birmingham, B3 1SZ United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Shubbak Festival. Commissioned by ANTI Festival & Shubbak Festival. Supported by British Council, Arts Council England & brut Wien.

60 mins (approx)

Sold out

The Search for Power is a new theatre show inviting the audience to look into archival documents, inaccessible knowledge, and a personal quest for revenge.

Fierce Says

Tania was last at Fierce when we commissioned her installation 'Gardens Speak' in 2014 which became a major international success touring to 18 countries worldwide. Tania is a vital voice in contemporary theatre and we’re honoured to be partnering with Shubbak Festival to host the UK premiere of this unique, immersive story.

Details

Wednesday 16 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

Thursday 17 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

Friday 18 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

8.30pm

AE Harris

£15 – £12

Sold out!

UK Premiere

Joseph Keckler (New York)

In Concert

Friday 18 October 2019 – Saturday 19 October 2019

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome. This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Howard Gilman Foundation.

70 mins

Sold out

Vocal virtuoso, charming provocateur, master prose stylist.

After recent shows at Lincoln Center, New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris, Joseph Keckler makes his UK debut, performing an intimate evening of his work in concert form—haunting art-pop songs and wild arias about daily life that spiral into the sublime and ridiculous. Hailed by New York Times as a “major vocal talent whose range shatters the conventional boundaries… with a trickster’s dark humor,” he delivers an experience that dances between comedy, commentary, and communion.

Accompanied by soulful pianist and vocalist Matthew Dean Marsh.

You can also catch Joseph in London at Soho Theatre October 7 – 12.

‘Unnerving artistry… subversive… he hardly seems human.’

– Observer

Fierce Says

At the last Fierce Festival performer Erin Markey told us we had to book Joseph – and that’s a recommendation you’d be a fool to turn down! Joseph’s offbeat humour has earned him a cult following in the USA and we’re thrilled to present his debut UK performances at Fierce before he goes on to a run at London’s Soho Theatre.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

8.30pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Studio 5

£12 – £10

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

8.30pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Studio 5

£12 – £10

Sold out!

UK Premiere

Doris Uhlich (Vienna)

Every Body Electric

Friday 18 October 2019, 6.30pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with MAC and DASH

70 mins

Credit David Kaplan

Credit Theresa Rauter

Every Body Electric is a simple, but radical invitation to explore potentials through dance, to make them visible, and to delve deep into an archaeology of energy. What other possibilities open up when machines – for example wheelchairs, prostheses, crutches – are regarded and staged as extensions to the body? Personal rhythms, dynamics, beats and bodily characteristics lead to unique dance styles. The explosive power, but also the gentle or forceful poetry of Every Body Electric ultimately rests in how the performers perceive their bodies and how they are perceived.

Choreography – Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgy – Elisabeth Schack
Performance – Yanel Barbeito Delgado, Adil Embaby, Karin Ofenbeck, Thomas Richter, Vera Rosner-Nógel, Winfried Zwanziger
DJ – Boris Kopeinig
Light and Stage – Gerald Pappenberger
Costume – Zarah Brandl
Press & Communication – Jonathan Hörnig
Feedback – Yoshie Maruoka & Theresa Rauter
Production – Margot Wehinger & Theresa Rauter
International Distribution – Something Great
thanks to Omar Gomez Hernandez und alle Assistent*innen der Performer*innen
a co-production with Tanzquartier Wien, Schauspiel Leipzig & insert (Theaterverein) insert (Theaterverein) is funded by Cultural Department of Vienna and the Federal Chancellery of Austria

‘A production that is not warm and cuddly, but instead bristly and grating. Beyond the full-bodied, sometimes difficult to chew on. Beautiful because it has not been beautified.’

– Leipziger Volkszeitung

Fierce Says

Fierce loves techno and Fierce loves Doris Uhlich. We spent a great evening chatting with Doris and the performers of Every Body Electric post show in Dusseldorf, but it wasn’t until a couple of weeks later when we still couldn’t stop thinking about the performance that we decided we had to bring it to Fierce. ++ Boris Kopeinig mixing the banging soundtrack live.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

6.30pm

Midlands Arts Centre, Theatre

£16 – £14

Tickets not on sale

UK Premiere

Begüm Erciyas (Berlin / Brussels)

Voicing Pieces

Friday 18 October 2019 – Sunday 20 October 2019

110 Northwood Street
Birmingham, B3 1SZ United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut London

30 mins

In Voicing Pieces, your own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, you become spectator of your own voice.

Please not the venue of this performance has changed to what was previously announced. This performances will now take place at AE Harris.

‘It is a long journey, although it lasts only half an hour, which eventually brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And it will never sound the same again. Magical.’

– deMorgen

Fierce Says

A performance in which you become the performer, for an audience of yourself. This is a beautiful and unusual installation that we also found strangely empowering. Be sure to book quick as slots are extremely limited.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9 – £9.00

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Sold out!

Sunday 20 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Tickets not on sale

UK Premiere

Begüm Erciyas (Berlin / Brussels)

Voicing Pieces

Friday 18 October 2019 – Sunday 20 October 2019

110 Northwood Street
Birmingham, B3 1SZ United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut London

30 mins

In Voicing Pieces, your own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, you become spectator of your own voice.

Please not the venue of this performance has changed to what was previously announced. This performances will now take place at AE Harris.

‘It is a long journey, although it lasts only half an hour, which eventually brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And it will never sound the same again. Magical.’

– deMorgen

Fierce Says

A performance in which you become the performer, for an audience of yourself. This is a beautiful and unusual installation that we also found strangely empowering. Be sure to book quick as slots are extremely limited.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9 – £9.00

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Sold out!

Sunday 20 October 2019

12.00pm

AE Harris

£9

Tickets not on sale

UK Premiere

Miet Warlop (Ghent)

Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break

Friday 18 October 2019 – Saturday 19 October 2019

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in partnership with Birmingham Hippodrome. Supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Goethe-Institut London

45 mins

In Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break, Warlop works with the idea of a western version of the whirling dance known from Sufi dervishes. Three performers spin in a circle for 45 minutes – a movement that in Sufi ceremonies is meant to induce a state of religious ecstasy. Keeping with Miet Warlop’s style, the whirling is enriched by making music. It becomes an experiment in perception, a dizzy feeling, a reflection on the spirit of our time. The mixture of whirling dance, recitation and concert moves on the thin line between self-control and loss of control. How can we find a balance between self-control and devotion? What shape are the spirits that write the story of our life?

Concept and direction – Miet Warlop
Music and performance – Pieter De Meester, Wietse Tanghe, Joppe Tanghe, Miet Warlop, Midas Heuvinck
Lyrics – Raimundas Malasauskas, Miet Warlop, Pieter De Meester
Technique and production – Niels Antonissen, Mathias Batsleer, Arno Truyens
Sound Engineer – Bart Van Hoydonck
Light Design – Henri Emmanuel Doublier
Costumes – Karolien Nuyttens
Produced by – Miet Warlop /Irene Wool vzw & NTGent
Co-produced by – Arts Centre Vooruit Gent, HAU Hebbel am Ufer – Berlin
With the support of – City of Ghent, Actoral. 17 Marseille

'Every once in a while you can experience a performance reminiscent of a uniqueness often missed by so many others. Ghost Writer an the Broken Hand Break by Miet Warlop is one such anomaly. In experiencing this performance, something in your being is created and triggered, something that makes your heart beat just a bit faster - because you are not just a viewer, but also an active participant in its birth.'

– De Theaterkrant.nl

Fierce Says

We got so sick of waiting for Miet Warlop to perform in the UK, that we just went and invited her ourselves. We’re delighted to present the long overdue mainstage UK debut performances from Warlop – a totally unique figure within the European scene. This show is a riot.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

10.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

£12 – £10

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

2.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

£12 – £10

Tickets not on sale

UK Premiere

Joseph Keckler (New York)

In Concert

Friday 18 October 2019 – Saturday 19 October 2019

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

70 mins

Sold out

Vocal virtuoso, charming provocateur, master prose stylist.

Accompanied by soulful pianist and vocalist Matthew Dean Marsh.

You can also catch Joseph in London at Soho Theatre October 7 – 12.

‘Unnerving artistry… subversive… he hardly seems human.’

– Observer

Fierce Says

At the last Fierce Festival performer Erin Markey told us we had to book Joseph – and that’s a recommendation you’d be a fool to turn down! Joseph’s offbeat humour has earned him a cult following in the USA and we’re thrilled to present his debut UK performances at Fierce before he goes on to a run at London’s Soho Theatre.

Details

Friday 18 October 2019

8.30pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Studio 5

£12 – £10

Sold out!

Saturday 19 October 2019

8.30pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Studio 5

£12 – £10

Sold out!