HAMEL

HAMEL, The 13th century Pied Piper eradicated the rats from the plagued town Hamelin with the power of music but used the same ploy to abduct children when not paid his fee. A troubling figure, a rat catcher, an angel of revenge, an abductor of children, a shaman who speaks with animals. For the YouYou Group HAMEL is an incentive to look deeper into enchanting musical practices as tools of change that affect spaces and transport people. The river where the rats were drowned, becomes the protagonist in this vocal performance, and the performers' voices stream into the solid theater architecture during an immersive sonic choreography.

Hamel is a verb of coding and recoding: 'hameling'. To hamel is to dissolve cultural tropes, by following the lineages of the group and its cultural specificities. To hamel is to allow imaginations to migrate across genders, races, geographies.The Brussels-based YouYou Group whip and balm with the pure force of voices. The ululations and loud trills after which the group is named (youyous) led the group to work deeply with vibrations and frequencies collapsing borders between performers and audience. inside and outside.

Happening mostly in public space, museums or galleries, the group now brings its space-sensitive engaging ritualistic performance approach to the theater.