What are the performative and political implications of collective listening? How can acts of listening become a choreographic motor? How can we listen to the histories we carry within our bodies?

During her residency at Artport, Netta Weiser developed a new phase of her research, “Choreographies of Listening.” Since 2019, she has been exploring the connections between the body, sound, and radio. As part of her long-term artist research project “Radio-Choreography”, she is developing ways to broadcast choreography on the radio, alternative methodologies for dance documentation, and working with sound as choreographic material. After years of listening to dance through auditory technologies, Weiser now seeks to bring the sensitivities and knowledge she acquired back to the body itself. At this stage of her research, she is investigating the body as an archive and the potentialities of listening practices as choreographic acts and as a performance of empathy.

During the residency, Weiser collaborated with performers Avigail Kochavi and Raz Mental. Through dialogue and experimentation, they developed choreographic scores of embodied listening. Combining somatic and performative practice, they examined the relationships between listening and touch, sound, and breath.

In her Artist’s talk and performance event at Artport, Weiser will present a glimpse into the choreographic process and invite the audience to experience “Deep Listening” practices inspired by composer Pauline Oliveros.