06 Sep

20:15

Leidse Schouwburg

Oude Vest 43, Leiden

An a cappella concert for Pride Leiden about the search for identity and the role of sex. Sometimes funny, often deadly serious, unexpectedly poetic and with a pink edge.

Or Sebastian: Gay Porn Suite

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An a cappella concert for Pride Leiden about the search for identity and the role of sex. Sometimes funny, often deadly serious, unexpectedly poetic and with a pink edge.

Or Sebastian sings about sex, or perhaps not? About not wanting to be reduced to your sex life, while also not quite knowing what a gay identity really is. That confining box, so sharply defined in pornography: do you want to be inside it, or escape it?

Gay Porn Suite refers to the classical suite form with its sequence of dances. At the heart of the suite are the Three Bromo Dances, where fragments of dialogue from porn films appear alongside quotations from queer self help books. These confront each other like competing manifestos, often drowning out the porn fragments.

Musically indebted to composers such as David Lang and Caroline Shaw, but also to ABBA, this concert is a tribute to Or Sebastian's queer ancestors. Their voices speak through the singing. In that way the music becomes about much more than porn. It is about desire, about fear and disconnection, about community, and above all about the search for an identity that has not been defined by others.

Or Sebastian

Or Sebastian is a queer vocal quartet of multidisciplinary performers who, through their diverse musical backgrounds, create a unique sound while constantly pulling each other out of their comfort zones. Or Sebastian consists of Felix Schellekens, Timo Tembuyser, Arnout Lems and Dominic Kraemer.