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Postures of Return is an interdisciplinary performance integrating live sound, processed voice and visual media to negotiate the need for duality within the self.
What does it look like to compress yourself into identifiers?
By offering a look into this internal colloquy, the work questions which ways of knowing best sustain us, and which ask us to contort. Through this lens, Postures of Return traces how a Black femme body can shift posture, voice and presence across moments of internal and external care and misunderstanding.
The performance brings together familial sound archives, live vocal processing, movement and projected media, allowing sound and image to shape how the body is encountered. Part documentary, part sonic-visual exploration, the work considers how personal histories persist in the present, and how the self is continually negotiated through the voices, expectations, and memories we carry. These elements operate in concert, creating a performance in which meaning emerges through their interplay rather than through any single medium alone.
What does it look like to compress yourself into identifiers?
By offering a look into this internal colloquy, the work questions which ways of knowing best sustain us, and which ask us to contort. Through this lens, Postures of Return traces how a Black femme body can shift posture, voice and presence across moments of internal and external care and misunderstanding.
The performance brings together familial sound archives, live vocal processing, movement and projected media, allowing sound and image to shape how the body is encountered. Part documentary, part sonic-visual exploration, the work considers how personal histories persist in the present, and how the self is continually negotiated through the voices, expectations, and memories we carry. These elements operate in concert, creating a performance in which meaning emerges through their interplay rather than through any single medium alone.
Designed, composed and written by Catherine Noa.
POSTURES OF RETURN has been programmed at Boston CyberArts Gallery, with its initial workshop at The Flynn Center (as part of the SNAP First person Performing Arts Festival) and further development at Woodward Residency.