YouYou Groep again demonstrates the liberating power of the voice.
HAMEL is an incentive to embrace the darker but also transformative forces of music. The title refers to the ratcatcher who abducted the children from Hamelin with the power of his flute. For the YouYou Group the medieval revenge story gets a new spin. The river in which first the rats and then the children were drowned becomes the protagonist and engulfs the theater. It speaks and mutters the unheard and unspoken. The performers' voices stream into the theater architecture in an immersive sonic choreography that dissolves all borders in search of rebirth and repair. The ululations and loud trills after which the YouYou group is named (youyous are called in Arabic ‘zaghrouta’ or in Farsi ‘kel’) made the group emblematic for its deeply vibrational vocal performances that make spaces and audiences simmer. The group now brings its engaging approach with a ritualistic bent to the theater.