SPIELART Festival: SCORED IN SILENCE [KLANG DES SCHWEIGENS]

It has been 80 years since two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Japan, survivors of this catastrophe are called "hibakusha" and include deaf people whose perspectives are barely documented. The artist and choreographer Chisato Minamimura, herself deaf, dedicates a haunting solo performance to these overlooked people: she tells their story with gestures, dances with projections and equips deaf audience members with so-called "bass belts" that translate sound into vibration. Chisato Minamimura thus follows the artistic concept of the "Aesthetic of Access", which understands accessibility not as a subsequent adaptation, but as a creative principle. Archive material, interviews and her own research combine to create a dense, visual and tangible composition that shows what it means to survive a catastrophe and yet barely be part of the collective memory. A reflection on memory, exclusion and the possibilities of non-verbal narration.

SCORED IN SILENCE is one of two productions FOR ALL selected by the Advisory Board for Accessibility appointed by SPIELART and in which barriers have been comprehensively dismantled. You can find more information on this under Accessibility.