Porto Residency
March 16 2023
Igreja das Taipas, Porto
A presentation of free improvisation and original compositions.
June 10 & 11 2022
Splendor, Amsterdam
Playing with Words
A MUSICAL AND VISUAL JOURNEY THROUGH ARTISTIC AND LITERARY MOVEMENTS OF THE 19th and 20th Centuries
Playing with Words was inspired on Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto, a fascinating film installation in which actor Cate Blanchett took on 13 different roles to represent 13 different manifestos of the 20th century. This work compelled Kalea to devise a show with a similar concept, but this time told through music. Kalea and Phoebe have taken poetry and writings from different artistic movements from early Romanticism to Post-modernism (including works by W.H. Auden, J.W. Goethe, Søren Kierkegaard, Filippo Marinetti, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, among many others) and have reimagined how they look and sound like through original compositions, improvisation, and live drawing.
Written in Water
October 2019
Keats House Italy &
The British Library
Collaboration with poet Andrew Mitchell on his long narrative poem “Written in Water” on the life of John Keats.
This excerpt refers to the following poems by John Keats:
Ode to Indolence
A Dream After Reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and
Francesca
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Ode to Psyche
Ode to Melancholy
Full video of performance: https://youtu.be/r-xdSvbGw40
October 2018
The British Library
Keats House London
Collaboration with poet Andrew Mitchell on his long narrative poem “Villa Diodati” on the story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.