A walk in the streets of the city, where 15 women activate the landscape as a resonance chamber: from body to body, from walls to voices, from memory to gesture, from gesture to the desires of future.

The songs we sing against the walls we clean is an outdoor performance around the concept of a choir of women - a collective of voices that negotiates anonymity and singularity, while sustaining together an ephemeral harmony. The creation process includes a workshop of 7 days with 15 local women. We would like to form a very diverse group, so the workshop is open to women (cis, trans) of all nationalities, professions, religions, occupations, ethnic origins and those with or without disabilities. The participants of the workshop will perform the piece and they are co- creators of the material generated.

The project develops the relationship between voice, body and vulnerability What is a vulnerable voice? Can vulnerability be communicated? If, as Audre Lorde said, “your silence will not protect you”, then maybe we’d better sing.

This is a feminist artistic gesture, that aims at creating a collective space of listening and tuning with the voices, emotions and biographies of each woman. Which repertoire of songs do they bring with them? Songs of complaint, of love, of rage, of transformation. What collective repertoire can our encounter produce? Which melodies are inscribed in different parts of our bodies? Can we awaken them so that they can finally speak up and sing? Melodies that weave the invisible nets that we need to build.

One important part of this project is the involvement of the local community in the creation of a performance, through a workshop of voice and movement. In these workshops, with practices of movement, voice and writing, we will research silenced words, transforming them into songs, into gestures. We want to work with people that identify themselves with the feminine gender, as these voices have been silenced for centuries.