“Irritating noise”: this is how the voice of the woman has often been considered from ancient Greek times to today. VOICE NOISE is inspired by Anne Carson's essay The Gender of Sound (1992), in which she exposes how patriarchal culture has sought to silence women by ideologically associating women's sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.  
In VOICE NOISE, some innovative, unknown and/or forgotten women's voices from the past hundred years of music history are given a stage. Six dancers respond to recordings in which the human voice can be heard in various guises: humming, soothing, shrieking, whispering, singing. Gradually, they discover their own voice. Jan Martens returns to a production for a small ensemble of six dancers. He works with some dancers who have inspired him in the past and invites new faces. The choreographer’s obsessions with numbers, geometry and patterning meets the unique physical languages of these performers, and a new-found interest in dance itself emerges: in detail and subtlety, in redefining grace and elegance. — Jan Martens / GRIP

Co-presentation with Teatro Central (Sevilha)