HA
Jana Jacuka

Roadburn Festival in Tilburg is Europe's premier underground festival for all types of heavy music. OFFROAD is the side programme that takes place during Roadburn at all kinds of venues in the city. Especially for OFFROAD, DansBrabant & Schouwburg Concertzaal Tilburg programme the performance HA By Jana Jacuka.

Free entry

HA
Sometimes you can only laugh when someone crosses your boundary. And that is exactly what HA Examines: laughter as an escape mechanism.

Through grunts, fry-screams and sounds on inhalations, Jana Jacuka transforms the voice into an extra body part. Armed with the voice as an “extra limb” to create choreography, Jacuka communicates in a way that goes deeper than words. She comes with empty hands. Just the space, her and you... and then suddenly: HA.

“A friend of a friend put a hand around me, ha
I'm feeling insecure but I just went hahahaha”

About Jana Jacuka
Choreographer and performer Jana Jacuka (1995, Latvia) creates performances that spring from almost nothing. In doing so, she uses her body, voice and text as starting points. For Jana, the past two years have been about exploring the voice and the letters H and A. She explores how the voice can become an extension of the body, like an extra limb with which she creates choreographies.

Her work has appeared at several venues, including Frascati (NL), Amsterdam Carré (NL), DansBrabant (NL), the AUAwirleben Festival (CH), Kanuti Gildi Saal and SAAL Biennaal (EE), the Homo Novus festival (LV). Jacuka has previously collaborated with Marina Abramović, Dries Verhoeven, Arno Schuitemaker and more. HA won the International Bursary Award (Amsterdam Fringe Festival).