She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore

© Rachel Strijdonk
© Rachel Strijdonk

She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore is a solo performance by Júlia Rúbies Subirós exploring the Western feminised voice and the stories that have shaped how it is heard. Figures such as Sirens, Cassandra, Echo, Medusa, Ophelia and the hysterical woman surface alongside popular culture and lived experience through voice, movement, song and sound. Water runs through these figures as image and logic: fluid, seductive, unstable and threatening, evoking bodies and voices that refuse to remain contained. Rather than reconstructing their histories, the performance inhabits their contradictions, asking how inherited images still shape how a feminised body/voice is allowed to express and respond. Moving between control and overflow, attraction and violence, these voices keep resurfacing, impossible to fully drown.

Concept, creation & performance: Júlia Rúbies Subirós - Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejić - Sound: Milan Van Doren - Lighting: Leticia Skrycky - Vocal assistance: Noela Covelo Velasco and Myriam Pruvot - Outside eye: Carolina Mendonça and Dagmar Teurelincx - Costume: Stef Assandri - Production: Oihana Azpillaga and Júlia Rúbies Subirós - With the support/residencies of: Workspacebrussels, Kunstencentrum BUDA, deSingel, CAMPO, Kaaitheater, La Caldera, La Poderosa, Espai Nyam Nyam, KAAP, Kunstenwerkplaats - With the support of the Flemish Community

Residencies

19.10.2026 - 01.11.2026

workspacebrussels