She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore

Júlia Rúbies Subirós - She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore 16:9

She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore is an ongoing choreographic research by Júlia Rúbies Subirós that investigates the sonic pathways of the feminised voice in Western culture. Combining dance and voice, the work moves through a constellation of figures—Echo, Cassandra, the siren, Medusa, Ophelia—archetypes that have long shaped how women’s voices are heard, dismissed, or pathologized.

Rather than fixed characters, these figures appear as shifting presences passing through an unstable narrator, emerging through movement, breath, speech, and song. Through dance, voice and sound, the work opens a space where inherited figures are inhabited, fractured and re-sounded, revealing both the violence embedded within them and their latent disruptive force.

Mentors: Bojana Cvejic, Carolina Mendonça - Technical assistance: Milan Van Doren - Voice Mentorship: Jule Flierl - Dramaturgy assistance: Eszter Némethi - Support: Flemish Community (research grant), workspacebrussels, DeSingel ON_OFF Space, CAMPO, Kaaistudios, KunstencentrumBUDA, HIROS POOL programme, de Markten, La Caldera, La Poderosa