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deva
schubert&
chihiro araki



Deva Schubert is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer whose work centers on the exploration of the voice. Combining dance, installation, and digital media, her pieces have been presented internationally, including at Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich, and Sophiensäle Berlin. Her award-winning work Glitch Choir (ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award 2024) continues to tour in diverse formats and variations. In 2025, she presented her first solo exhibition, Silent Spills, at Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna.

Chihiro Araki (she/her) is a performance artist based in Berlin. After training at The Tokyo Ballet School and earning BA from Rambert School in London, she has danced with Carte Blanche and Johannes Wieland Company, as well as for Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Waldmann, Meg Stuart, Lina Gómez, Sergiu Matis, Jule Flierl, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Deva Schubert, Chiara Bartl-Salvi, Hanako Hayakawa and musical artist Pan Daijing.


sonic fractures


26.06 / 14h30-17h30

This workshop explores how collective voice and dissonance can open new ways of being together and create space for the unheard. Drawing on the performance practice of Glitch Choir, participants engage with disruption and dissonance as creative tools for body and voice.The workshop begins with a warm-up activating body and voice before moving into its core practices: dissonant singing and the lamento song. Through techniques such as overtone singing, yodeling, polyphonic dissonance, and exploring the mouth as a resonance space, the voice is approached as a physical, spatial, and collective phenomenon.How does the voice move the body, and how does the body shape the voice? How do shifts between harmony and dissonance affect the space we share together? 


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*Deva and Chihiro will be performing their piece ‘Glitch Choir’ on the evening of 27 June. For this performance, they are looking for volunteers to take part, in line with the workshop’s themes. Are you interested? Let us know by email or during the workshop.