Intimate Karaoke: Live at Uterine Concert Hall
Vulnerable audience-singers perform a cappella karaoke to a cabaret audience. In a nearby room, other audience-members can hear their vocals complete with backing instrumental score using a stethoscope listening to a speaker located in the uterus of even more vulnerable artist Dayna McLeod.
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Production History
OFFTA: Montreal, QC 25-26 May 2019
SummerWorks: Toronto, ON 15 August 2018. Tang Teaching Museum: Saratoga Springs, NY 8 June 2018 Studio XX: Montreal, QC May 2018 Monument-National: Montreal, QC 11 November 2016 Foundrie Darling: Montreal, QC 28 July 2016 |
Photo credit: Danya McLeod. Photo source: daynarama.com
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Read more in PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation: INTIMACY, US
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Press
"A very brave, and fun, way to explore music!" - iheartradio
"Her work uses humour, and capitalizes on exploiting the body’s social and material conditions using cabaret, duration, single-channel video, and installation practices." - OFFTA |
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Photo credit: Nikol Mikus. Photo source: daynarama.com
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Photo credit: Nikol Mikus. Photo source: daynarama.com
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Photo credit: Nikol Mikus. Photo source: daynarama.com
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Articles
Dayna McLeod, “Uterine Concert Hall,” Danya McLeod, 18 September 2021, daynarama.com/uterine-concert-hall/.
Dayna McLeod, “This is What it Sounds Like: Intimate Karaoke: Live at Uterine Concert Hall,” Canadian Theatre Review 184 (Fall 2020): 33–38.
Alanna Thain, “From Specular to Speculative: Intimate Encounters @ Uterine Concert Hall,” FADO, 2018, performanceart.ca/book/golden-book-5/.
Dayna McLeod, “This is What it Sounds Like: Intimate Karaoke: Live at Uterine Concert Hall,” Canadian Theatre Review 184 (Fall 2020): 33–38.
Alanna Thain, “From Specular to Speculative: Intimate Encounters @ Uterine Concert Hall,” FADO, 2018, performanceart.ca/book/golden-book-5/.
