photo credit: Johanna Austin
“It’s A Seduction”
Emily Bate and the Trust Your Moves chorus
With Sam Rise & Sally Louise Polk
Performed June 2019 at Bok Building, Philadelphia
For TRADE SCHOOL: PHL/LAX, presented by The Philadelphia Thing
Why does your voice sound different played back on a recording? You can’t answer with your ears, so follow the vibrations. Those vibrations travel up through your bony skull and set the ear drum vibrating, a second time. It’s A Seduction is: the queer pleasure of voice, oriented towards how it feels instead of how it sounds. It’s choral music, small ensemble, and solo work rubbing together with the pleasure and friction of being one amongst many. Featuring Trust Your Moves chorus, a queer community chorus devoted to performing new work.