Lukas Malkowski
Microphone Controller: Simultaneously, a dance solo and sensory concert. Songs, signs (ASL), speeches, moans, thrashes, come together to create a sonic, vibrating, visual concert experience. A celebration of voice. Seen voice. Heard voice. Felt voice. Homaging the likes of Prince, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. Embodying stadium-level rockstars, sign language and dance.
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sungrazers: Microphone Controller
sungrazers: Microphone Controller
Working with a team of CODA, Deaf, hearing, and hard of hearing artists, Lukas Malkowski explores accessibility and identity; blending spectacle with personal and political perspectives as a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult). Each scene of this performance is saturated with bright lights and heavy vibrational bass; often engaging 2-3 senses simultaneously.
This semi-fictional docudrama concert weaves speech, sign, and dance to tell the story of the rockstar Microphone Controller, challenging societal notions of ‘voice’ and ‘music’ with Deaf and CODA perspectives.
Additional information
Performance, horeography: Lukas Malkowski
Dramaturgy: Antonia Gersch
Music Production, Coaching: Roland Meyer de Voltaire
Costume: Moussi Bang
Dialogue Partner/Outside Eye: Rita Mazza
DGS Coaching: Pinky Aiello
ASL Coaching: Gaitrie Persaud-Killings
Light Design, Technician: Rob Prideaux
Original Lighting Design: Chris Malkowski
Caption Design, Vision: Julia Cremers
Captions for Summerworks: Teagan Ariss
Videography: Drew Berry
Trailer Videography: Walter Bickmann
Quotes by Akiles Agaili and Christine Sun Kim
With the kind support of summerworksto, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Tanzpraxis 2022/23, dance:madeincanada/fait au Canada, Tanzhaus zurich, ada-studio.
Dramaturgy: Antonia Gersch
Music Production, Coaching: Roland Meyer de Voltaire
Costume: Moussi Bang
Dialogue Partner/Outside Eye: Rita Mazza
DGS Coaching: Pinky Aiello
ASL Coaching: Gaitrie Persaud-Killings
Light Design, Technician: Rob Prideaux
Original Lighting Design: Chris Malkowski
Caption Design, Vision: Julia Cremers
Captions for Summerworks: Teagan Ariss
Videography: Drew Berry
Trailer Videography: Walter Bickmann
Quotes by Akiles Agaili and Christine Sun Kim
With the kind support of summerworksto, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Tanzpraxis 2022/23, dance:madeincanada/fait au Canada, Tanzhaus zurich, ada-studio.
Dates
July 2025
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