What Emerges from the Echo

What Emerges from the Echo is a live performance exploring memory and identity through voice, sound, light and movement.

Created as the opening performance for Waking Life, the work combines voice, field recordings, poetry and live composition to unfold as a sonic narrative. It explores the relationship between grief, resilience, exile and belonging, examining how memory, landscape and ancestral traces shape both individual and collective identity.

Light design: João Dinis
Butoh performance: Oryx

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