T0746944506Chi Chi Bunichi - Ladino folksong meets contemporary choreography in a nomadic journey through Sarajevo to Jerusalem; Dalston via Famagusta. Unfurled in a domestic urban gathering, Chi Chi Bunichi is a new kind of performance mixing traditional music and songs, spoken words and storytelling, dance. Chi Chi Bunichi is an intimate dance with harmonium, ukulele, recorded and live voices celebrating stories of diaspora, displacement, dollars and desire. Come fall into the arms of real people... Chi Chi Bunichi takes as its starting point Sephardi song, a form that has journeyed from Spain to the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans and Morocco and survived for 500 years. Ladino is based on medieval Spanish and is a dying language surviving now in romansas and cantigas. This dying, itinerant form of song is providing the inspiration for live contemporary narratives; in a form that is on the edges of physical theatre, event and live performance.Performer Daphna Attias. Performer Robert Cook. Performer Yaniv Fridel. Performer Ayse Tashkiran. Performer Konstantinos Thomaidis. Performer Jenny Hayton. Performer Mark Jones. Performer Mark McCullum. | |
| 9 May 09 | Rich Mix, Outer London :: V0478944234 listing details L1850450968 |
T01096367003A Dance of love letters preserved in jam, sweets hidden in a child's clothes and a grandmother's singing to those who remember but no longer understand. Inspired by an ancient Ladino song, Chi Chi Bunichi is an uplifting performance that blurs the edges of theatre, dance and gig. Mentored through their collaboration by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Chi Chi Bunichi brings together a director, performer, musician, designer, dancer and singer in a meeting of memories and songs, storytelling ad spectators. | |
| 22 Jun 08 | Camden People's Theatre, Outer London :: V176 listing details L01996793740 |
