Project/ Town Choir

Town Choir is a performance that takes place in public space and illustrates a relationship between a number of writers (usually between 2-4), who are placed in their own spaces (ie: their homes), and a choir, who is performing to an audience in the aforementioned public space. The choir is singing out the writing sent to them in real time by the writers — generally these are everyday observations from their lives. The everyday is made epic through the flip of private thought into public performance.

In a fixed location, writers type out observations of the world unfolding around them. In that same moment, a town choir receives these observations via a large screen and sings them out to the public. Drawing on patterns of relaying information that mirror Twitter or Facebook, Town Choir treats everyday considerations as the news. Intimate and minute details are transmitted through the ether, and then filtered through the live body in an epic choral declaration.

Town Choir is part of a continuing series of site-oriented performances that are built through partnerships with an artist or company and a festival or venue in any given location, featuring local collaborators, including writers and choirs. 

Directed by Maiko Yamamoto
Composer/Conductor Robbie Blake
Multimedia Designer/Operator Remy Siu
Produced by Theatre Replacement
Photos by Simon Lazewski, Emily Cooper