Mikhail Karikis Xenon Act 2 (Extracts).mp4

This is an edited version of a performance of Mikhail Karikis's work Xenon Act 2. Referencing the ancient Greek word for 'stranger', Xenon is an interdisciplinary piece that stages an unlikely gathering of strangers, all of whom face a different challenge or impossible act: a blistered dancer negotiates his bodily deformities, a speaker attempts to recite the entire declaration of human rights from memory, a voice trio sing tongue twisters, a viola player plays the viola upside down, a soprano sings without stopping to breathe etc. Meanwhile, 2 soldiers take over the concert hall and barricade sections of it entrapping the performers and the audience.

Theatrical and operatic in its nature, Xenon Act 2 focuses on an expansive use of the voice (in speaking, singing, sound poetry and extended vocal techniques) as well as on the politics of difference.

The performers here are: Maurice Causey (dancer/choreographer), Monica Ross (performance artist/speaker), juice (voice trio), E.laine (soprano), Amy Cunningham (soprano), Ben Crawley (tenor), Conall Gleeson (viola), and Mikhail Karikis (baritone/composition/direction).

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Music

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• juice vocal ensemble
• mikhail karikis
• monica ross
• maurice causey
• conall gleeson
• amy cunningham
• elaine mitchener