In WOTH Liesa Van der Aa puts into words the need of a generation desperately looking for answers and structures against a background of constant excess. What does it mean to live well? Which compass are we sailing by? Liesa sought and found inspiration for WOTH in an old Egyptian ritual that is moving in its simplicity: after death, a person’s heart is weighed against the feather of truth. Is it too heavy, too light or balanced? Van der Aa will celebrate these three ratios along with eight other musicians. What begins as a personal story becomes the voice of a people. The Egyptian Book of the Dead constitutes the visual background for a stupefying music performance. 

In earlier solo work Liesa Van der Aa’s rugged music hovered between the solitude of her voice and the grandiloquence of her violin, loops, effects, etc. With this experience under her belt, plus the live accompaniment of eight musicians, a composition for a 42-voice choir, enhanced on stage by video and animation (by Hangaar bvba, Guy Cassiers, Anja Perisic and Afreux), Van der Aa creates the first work of her own. A musical and visual trip which feeds surfeit, applauds the dream and stubbornly protects hope.