Name: Otucha Choir - Polyphonic Ancestral Disco
Start: 2025-09-10T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne

Otucha Choir - Polyphonic Ancestral Disco

Polyphonic Ancestral Disco
Vocal Performance by Otucha Choir in the frame of Tanznacht Berlin 2025: Vocal Affairs
[Celebrate&Context]
Wednesday 10.9. 18:00, Hof
Free Entry | Duration approx. 40 min
“What does it mean to possess a voice?” is the overarching question of Tanznacht Berlin. Vocal Affairs. At the opening of the festival, the Otucha Collective will provide an initial answer that sets the tone. The nine-member FLINTA+ vocal ensemble will perform a raw, polyphonic concert in the Uferstudios courtyard. It incorporates traditional Eastern European wedding songs to explore female identity, collective voice and sonic resistance.
For Otucha Collective, the voice is a tool of transformation and self-empowerment. By working with ancestral songs, understood as both repositories of matrilineal knowledge and embodied archives of trauma and resilience, it transforms shame into strength and tradition into radical presence.
The performance combines performative vocal work with rural polyphony. It invites the audience into a soundscape of care, defiance and interdependence, in which many voices coexist, echoimg across borders and time.
Credits: Artistic Direction: Agnieszka Kucharska, Dorota Michalak, Ola Zielińska Performance: Mina Dordević, Magda Jaroszewicz, Agnieszka Kucharska, Kata Kwiatkowska, Julia Legeżyńska, Maria Legeżyńska, Dorota Michalak, Liene Šilde, Ola Zielińska Costume: Agnieszka Kucharska Consultation: Emma Waltraud Howes, Borys Słowikowski, Paula Turca
Supporters: Supported by Tanznacht Berlin. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin.
🫧 Otucha Collective is a Berlin based FLINTA+ vocal ensemble with a focus on healing and empowering qualities of the human voice. Otucha works with rural Eastern European vocal traditions and somatic practices, sharing experience of a deep, transforming togetherness in a collective sound flow. It creates vocal performances, public interventions and holds singing circles. ‘Otucha’, a Polish word for care and uplift, reflects the commitment to foster communal practices and rework ancestral heritage.