Wild Tongues Productions

Testing the waters in "Water is life" 🌊 performative experiment drawing upon the element of water and its correlation to the feminine 💙 site specific performance took place in San Diego, La Jolla, by performance artist/deviser Samantha Hafey 5/26/23
Captured by Tony Navarro
Initial foray into .herness as fodder for the current performance season of SONGS FROM THE SEA 🌊🌊🌊
“All things connect and that is why each and every project undertaken correlates, interconnects, responds and dances with the other. For my own practice it helps to have side projects that require personal development to the title projects that take center stage in my life- that way I am able to continually interact with stimulus and I can interrogate my way of understanding what I do, to ensure it undeniably develops and expands and I consequently expand as an theater maker and human. The performance that is the centerpiece also develops for the better because of it.” ✨
~ Samantha Hafey (founder/director)

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Testing the waters in "Water is life" 🌊 performative experiment drawing upon the element of water and its correlation to the feminine 💙 site specific performance took place in San Diego, La Jolla, by performance artist/deviser Samantha Hafey 5/26/23
Captured by Tony Navarro
Initial foray into .herness as fodder for the current performance season of SONGS FROM THE SEA 🌊🌊🌊
“All things connect and that is why each and every project undertaken correlates, interconnects, responds and dances with the other. For my own practice it helps to have side projects that require personal development to the title projects that take center stage in my life- that way I am able to continually interact with stimulus and I can interrogate my way of understanding what I do, to ensure it undeniably develops and expands and I consequently expand as an theater maker and human. The performance that is the centerpiece also develops for the better because of it.” ✨
~ Samantha Hafey (founder/director)

“Passing surfers, riding musical waves”
6/18
La Jolla Shores, site specific durational performance/open rehearsal
Music showcased “Songs from the Sea”
Capturing in the moment 🎶
Still time to catch our San Diego performance this Sunday

🌊🎶💧 This Sunday 8pm! See you there $20 tickets available at the door 💙 featuring .diggs 🌊🌊

“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.”
~Max Roach

Synergy flow connection direction 🎶 part of the joy of discovery in the moment is collective discovery and being open to the unknown. That is finding ideas together, working with and against other. Here we have a documented moment painted by 🎨 capturing just that, a connected conversation between and 💧during the La Jolla Shores public rehearsal of “Songs from the Sea” 🌊🙏✨Who prompts who? Does the sound initiate the dance or does dance initiate the sound 🎷 here are two worlds colliding perhaps simultaneously? 💙 find out at our upcoming show this Wednesday the 21st 8pm 🌊

What a wonderful day we spent yesterday sharing our most recent collaborative work “Songs from the Sea”. 🌞 It was a joy to promote our upcoming shows ( 21st AND the 25th )
and to have so many friends and family drop in to see what we’ve been working on 💙🙏 We also loved getting to meet some of you for the first time! Thanks for listening and watching ✨🎶 Something else we love is the fact that art is so integrative, and we love how everything connects. That’s why this picture brings us joy, as it was created on Father’s Day, by artist, and father of the co-director and music director of this work 🎹 thank you to for capturing the flurry of emotion that is “Songs from the Sea”. Brian observed the performance and improvisations and created in his own improvisory manner alongside us 🌊 🌊 🌊 Featured we have .diggs and 💙💧 a huge massive thank you to everyone else that helped out on the day, especially grateful to Noemi, Angel and Jamie for their documenting and promotion and the Jampak crew for dropping in 🙏🙏

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"Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered..."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, 
Women Who Run With the Wolves

Summoning the wild womxn,
6/7/23, Lake Tahoe
Danced by Whitney Wesevich
Captured by Samantha Hafey
An initial foray into .herness

Before we make our announcements we'd like to acknowledge where it is we come from artistically, our roots~

We welcome wild, we welcome her. A promise here, let it be said. We encourage all stories to come forth via Wild Tongues, but seek to keep sacred space open and alive for all womxn via our sister service WildHerNess 🌿 your voices matter and we see you and wish to hear you, however unruly you may be we welcome you here, we welcome you wildly and we welcome you lovingly 🦋🐍 🐅🪶🐚

And the day has finally come! We've been working and experimenting behind the scenes and away from the watchful and intense gaze of social media (a relationship we are constantly working on and through) but it is finally time to awaken from our hibernation. The wild tongues (technology) hiatus has lapsed and we are back and ready to share with the community what we've been working on over the last couple of years! We are so excited and thankful for those who are still here following the journey and to those of you who are new, we welcome you lovingly!
Thank you for being present with us. The first project will be announced very shortly! 💙🌊🐬🐳🐋 We are beyond excited to be connected again and can't wait for future collaborations. Remember you can always reach out if you want to be involved or want to know more. We love inquiry and curiosity. As always, we look forward to sharing your stories. Thank you for trusting us with these sacred gems ✨️

Yours in the arts,
Samantha (director/founder)
🌵😝

📢 We are so excited and thrilled to share some big announcements 📢 first reveal is our new ventures for 23-24' and that is:

A) Conscious Creators
B) Sustainible Sounds
C) Wildherness

Curious? Reach out, chat to us, enquire! More on this to come! Keep your 👀 peeled 🌵💕🌸🍃🌿🌷

We don't just make art, we make experiences, we make moments...

"Water is life" 🌊 performative experiment drawing upon the element of water and its correlation to the feminine 💙 site specific performance took place in San Diego, La Jolla, by performance artist/deviser Samantha Hafey 5/26/23
Captured by Tony Navarro
Initial foray into .herness

"My intention was to investigate on a deeper and more intimate level my connection to my surroundings and consequently myself. The current project I am working on with Wild Tongues features a collection of water stories and it was my aim to dig deeper into my own psyche whilst working on this collaborative work, considering I am encouraging other's to open up to the inner and collective void, it was time within my own personal practise and indepedent work to just 'go there' so to speak.

On the day I worked with different mythologies to inspire my performative experiment and played with the notion of 'gaze' in clear sight of general public and beach goers. Furthermore I worked with and against the masculine eye of the lens, hiding from it at times, opening up to it at others times like a lotus, manipulating it, even rejecting it where necessary and working through it. For me this experience was a complete collision of organic vs inorganic and it was about pushing boundaries and trying to integrate the two with compassion; blurring the lines between myself-element, and water- element and other-matter."

We are thrilled to be collaborating with incredible pianist, composer and arranger Thomas Meyer] for the premiere international project "Songs from the Sea". This performance will take place this Sunday at Dizzy's Jazz club, San Diego and features an immensely skilled ensemble and some of San Diego's finest musicians 💙🙏 It features original compositions and poetry from co-directors and Thomas Meyer] as well as the words of .diggs ✨️ based off of the original concept by Samantha Hafey: "Into the Blue" as well as taking inspiration from her play "Selkie" or "the Seal Women" this performance has surpassed its humble beginnings and has expanded to a deeper and more nuanced discourse between the three creators. The content finds a balance between man's fear of ocean and the organic, man's attempts to control or dominate the ocean and consequently the women in his life as well as observing womxn's innate connection to water (birthing and periods etc). It talks about conservation and our need to protect our blue planet and deep desire to connect as well as the contrast, exploring stories of a 17 year old navy officer stuck in a water prison growing sea sick, dizzy and drunk on oyster brine with too many weapons at his disposal. Overall this piece is a montage of stories and vignettes from various characters trying to understand themselves and the world around them through the lens of the ocean as it relates to them in different moments in time.

Thank you to for this wonderful improvised painting as the poster in response to the live music and compositions of Thomas Meyer.

We are so excited to be performing at PLAYGROUND this Saturday night as part of Drift Festival. 🌊🫧

Please note that due to wet weather, the performance will now take place at Alpaca Pavilion at the Red Hill Recreation Reserve and Showgrounds (Mornington Peninsula).

Tickets are still available via Spark Youth Productions (link below). 💗🌵

https://www.driftartsfestival.com.au/program/playground