REVERBERATIONS is the study of a body in “duel” with a drum set. It is also a meeting with several female drummers from different cultures and musical styles. Through the collection of stories about their relationship to music and the body of the craft, Aina Alegre, alone on stage with the instrument, activates a new fiction around hammering. Their words, their descriptions, are absorbed and transported into the realm of performance.

Straddling the figure of the drummer and the dancer, and with a self-taught approach, the choreographer opens up different relationships to the instrument through movement, and plays with the notion of “beating” and its possible derivatives to plunge into different registers. An interactive device, including dance and sound, activates multiple relationships to percussion, gestural persistence and reverberation.

REVERBERATIONS is part of the STUDIES project, a series of site-specific performances based on the collection of gestures, dances and stories related to the gestural practice of hammering. STUDIES was born of the desire to observe and follow the trace of this gesture/movement/action that is recurrent in my choreographic writing. I seek to rediscover it through different cultures and territories in the form of different physical practices, crafts, sounds and dances.

From the collection of stories, this project has the wilĺ to generate a living archive, to link words and memories of gestures. A project in which exchange and transmission are the driving forces behind choreographic fictions and practices. An attempt to transport this “root” gesture into a contemporary context.