Performance . Revival by Jule Flierl & Irena Z. Tomažin in the frame of Tanznacht Berlin 2025: Vocal Affairs
The Hungarian-Serbian poet and performer Katalin Ladik is considered the “Yoko Ono of the Balkans” and a pioneer of noise and performance art in Southeastern Europe.
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U.F.O. - Hommage to Katalin Ladik
With the “SoundBodyPoetry” of her radical body art performance UFO Party from 1969, she shook the artistic scene at the time and established methods In of experimental voice work and physical performance already in the 1970s.
In their collaboration, German tone-dancer Jule Flierl and Slovenian choreo-vocalist Irena Z. Tomažin celebrate their shared interest in Ladik's artistic position: a homage that blurs the boundaries between poetry, physical performance and experimental voice work, while continuing the two artists' own research into the physical experience of language and the articulation of different layers of the voice.
2023, the duet received the AWARD for the best performance at the Gibanica Festival Slovenia, partly due to its political and philosophical dimension.
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Concept, Choreography, Performance: Irena Z. Tomažin, Jule Flierl
Light: Gretchen Blegen
Sound: Nicola Ratti / Tomaž Grom
Costume: Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Historic Advice, Dramaturgy: Kata Kasznahorkai
Assistance: Sharón Nogales Mercado
Production: Alexandra Wellensiek, Zavod Sploh / Spela Trošt
A production by Irena Z. Tomažin & Jule Flierl in co-production with Sophiensæle (Berlin), Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana), Charleroi danse (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana). Co-produced by apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund and the HKF Resumption Fund. With the support of SKICA Berlin - Slovenian Cultural Centre Berlin.
Jule Flierl (she/her) is a dance and voice artist whose choreographies unsettle the relationship between seeing and hearing. Her works explore the history of the voice in Western stage dance. She collaborates with Irena Z. Tomažin (“U.F.O. - Hommage to Katalin Ladik”; LP “U.F.O.”), Antonia Baehr (“Die Hörposaune” live + film; “Tontänze”) and Camille O and develops choreographies for dissonant collectives (“Inner Mining” 2025, “Time out of Joint” 2023, “School of Attunement and Tactlessness” 2022).
Irena Z. Tomažin (she/her) is a dancer, experimental singer and philosopher who works in the experimental dance and music context. She has released four albums: “Crying Games”, “Taste of Silence”, “Lump in the throat” and “U.F.O.”. Her work is a consistent exploration of the non-linguistic voice in physical performances. She has worked with Janez Jansa, Tino Sehgal, Mala Kline, Christian Kesten and Josephine Evrard, among others. Irena teaches at “The world is Sound” in Berlin.
Light: Gretchen Blegen
Sound: Nicola Ratti / Tomaž Grom
Costume: Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Historic Advice, Dramaturgy: Kata Kasznahorkai
Assistance: Sharón Nogales Mercado
Production: Alexandra Wellensiek, Zavod Sploh / Spela Trošt
A production by Irena Z. Tomažin & Jule Flierl in co-production with Sophiensæle (Berlin), Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana), Charleroi danse (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana). Co-produced by apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund and the HKF Resumption Fund. With the support of SKICA Berlin - Slovenian Cultural Centre Berlin.
Jule Flierl (she/her) is a dance and voice artist whose choreographies unsettle the relationship between seeing and hearing. Her works explore the history of the voice in Western stage dance. She collaborates with Irena Z. Tomažin (“U.F.O. - Hommage to Katalin Ladik”; LP “U.F.O.”), Antonia Baehr (“Die Hörposaune” live + film; “Tontänze”) and Camille O and develops choreographies for dissonant collectives (“Inner Mining” 2025, “Time out of Joint” 2023, “School of Attunement and Tactlessness” 2022).
Irena Z. Tomažin (she/her) is a dancer, experimental singer and philosopher who works in the experimental dance and music context. She has released four albums: “Crying Games”, “Taste of Silence”, “Lump in the throat” and “U.F.O.”. Her work is a consistent exploration of the non-linguistic voice in physical performances. She has worked with Janez Jansa, Tino Sehgal, Mala Kline, Christian Kesten and Josephine Evrard, among others. Irena teaches at “The world is Sound” in Berlin.
Dates
September 2025
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