RÉVERBÉRATIONS (REVERBERATIONS) is the study of a body dueling with a drum set. It is also an encounter with several female drummers from different cultures and musical styles.
By gathering accounts of their relationship to music and to the trade, Aina Alegre, alone on stage with the instrument, activates a new fiction around hammering. Their words and descriptions are absorbed and transported into the field of movement.

Straddling the line between drummer and dancer, with a self-taught approach, the choreographer uses movement to open up different relationships with the instrument and plays with the notion of ‘beating’ and its possible variations to dive into different registers.

An interactive set-up in which dance and sound activate multiple relationships to percussion, endurance and reverberation.

RÉVERBÉRATIONS is part of the ETUDES ("Studies") research project, a series of site-specific performances created from a collection of movements, dances and stories linked to the gesture of hammering.

ETUDES was born of the desire to observe and follow the trace of this gesture/movement/action that recurs in my choreographic writing. I seek to rediscover it through different cultures and territories in the form of different physical practices, crafts, sounds and dances.

Based on the collection of stories, this project aims to generate a living archive, linking words and traces of gesture. Exchange, transmission and speech are the driving forces behind choreographic fictions and practices. It's an attempt to bring this ‘root’ gesture into a contemporary context.