The Tea and Dragons choir was originally founded in 2020, by singer Lieke Dijkstra,
The Choir is an multidisciplinary all female group that composes live with the use of sign language, also known as ‘Soundpainting’.
*Soundpainting is the universal multidisciplinary live composing sign language for musicians, actors, dancers, and visual Artists. The soundpainting language was created by Walter Thompson in Woodstock, New York 1974.
Wanting to implement movement to their compositions, the choir traveled to Sweden in 2021, to learn the sign alfabet from Walter Thompson himself. After this intensive they started experimenting with composing real time, using the symbolic gestures to show the underlying physical level of the sound.
“Our performances are meant to touch you on an intuitive level, we want their audience to recognise themselves in the way we express sound as a ritual”.
