Barbara Tinoco - Outras Linguas Today

“We speak in gestures, in sighs, in the way we turn our backs at night,” she hummed. She imagined two people standing on opposite sides of a glass wall. They are screaming, but the glass only allows them to see the shapes of the words, never the sound. The Performance: The Universal Dialect

Barbara didn’t start by singing. She started by looking at the audience. She saw a young couple holding hands tightly, and an older man sitting alone with a glass of red wine. She realized they all knew this "other language." Barbara Tinoco - Outras Linguas

She began to write about the frustration of being "polyglot" in emotion but "illiterate" in connection. The lyrics poured out: a story of a couple who can speak to the world, but can’t find the right dialect for each other. “We speak in gestures, in sighs, in the

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