On Saturday, May 16, Puerto Rican dramaturg Kianí del Valle will perform Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta at NUITS SONORES in Lyon, France. The work unfolds to the music of Dominican producer Kelman Duran and East-German composer AGF, with a special light design by the visual artist Theresa Baumgartner. The piece is an original work commissioned by and performed at TIMES Festivals.
Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta posits human language as a living, dynamic entity, shaped by landscapes and cultural shifts, and connecting diasporas across the globe. The act experiments with a multiplicity of voices, pitches, vocal expressions, languages, samplings and rhythms, weaving them into creative fabric on stage. The multi-voiced sounds come together like life itself: random, wild, and deeply rooted in an understanding of connection.
Through this exploration of sound and movement, the artists invite you to question how your conditioning towards different voices and languages influence your perception of the world.
Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta | NUITS SONORES
Location: Lyon, France
Date: Saturday, May 16
Time: 18:30-19:30
Location: Lyon, France
Date: Saturday, May 16
Time: 18:30-19:30
Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta debuted in March 2026 at Elevate in Graz. The NUITS SONORES performance will be one of the last opportunities to see the performance live.
For interview or other press requests, please contact Claire Petersen, claire@quinto.com.
About Kianí del Valle
Kianí del Valle is a Puerto Rican choreographer, dancer, director, and visual artist whose work moves between the stage, the screen, and the site-specific. As founder and artistic director of KDV Performance Group in Berlin, she develops solo and ensemble works that combine live performance, film, and installation to investigate postcolonial histories, feminist narratives, Caribbean and Taíno indigenous knowledge, and the entanglement of spirituality with ecology.
Her work has been commissioned and presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Berlinische Galerie, Sonar Festival in Barcelona, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Palais Brongniart in Paris, and the Venice Biennale. Recent works include Te veo en el horizonte (Paris, 2025), El Tunel (Berlin, 2024), Cortex (Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 2024), and an earlier iteration of De Brujas y Fantasmas presented in Utrecht in 2025.
She holds a BFA in Contemporary Choreography from Concordia University, Montreal, and trained professionally at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. She has held guest professorships at Universität der Künste Berlin, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In 2015 she received the Outstanding Artist of the Year award from the Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico.
She is currently a resident artist at Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she maintains an active presence in the Caribbean contemporary art community alongside her Berlin base. Beyond the stage, del Valle has collaborated with Bad Bunny, Residente, Lorde, Travis Scott, Young MIko and Labrinth, integrating movement, dramaturgy, and character development into large-scale music and performance projects.
Her work has been commissioned and presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Berlinische Galerie, Sonar Festival in Barcelona, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Palais Brongniart in Paris, and the Venice Biennale. Recent works include Te veo en el horizonte (Paris, 2025), El Tunel (Berlin, 2024), Cortex (Barcelona, Berlin, New York, 2024), and an earlier iteration of De Brujas y Fantasmas presented in Utrecht in 2025.
She holds a BFA in Contemporary Choreography from Concordia University, Montreal, and trained professionally at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. She has held guest professorships at Universität der Künste Berlin, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In 2015 she received the Outstanding Artist of the Year award from the Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico.
She is currently a resident artist at Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she maintains an active presence in the Caribbean contemporary art community alongside her Berlin base. Beyond the stage, del Valle has collaborated with Bad Bunny, Residente, Lorde, Travis Scott, Young MIko and Labrinth, integrating movement, dramaturgy, and character development into large-scale music and performance projects.