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We 7 Apr 2010 19.00 PREMIÈRE with English surtitles |
Bergen BIT Teatergarasjen +47 815 33133 website |
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Th 8 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Bergen BIT Teatergarasjen +47 815 33133 website |
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Fr 9 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Bergen BIT Teatergarasjen +47 815 33133 website |
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Sa 10 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Bergen BIT Teatergarasjen +47 815 33133 website |
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Su 11 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Bergen BIT Teatergarasjen +47 815 33133 website |
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We 14 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Oslo Black Box Teater +47 815 11500 website |
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Th 15 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Oslo Black Box Teater +47 815 11500 website |
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Fr 16 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Oslo Black Box Teater +47 815 11500 website |
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Sa 17 Apr 2010 19.00 with English surtitles |
Oslo Black Box Teater +47 815 11500 website |
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Th 22 Apr 2010 20.30 with Dutch and French surtitles |
Brussels Kaaitheater +32 2 2015959 website |
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Fr 23 Apr 2010 20.30 with Dutch and French surtitles |
Brussels Kaaitheater +32 2 2015959 website |
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Sa 24 Apr 2010 20.30 with Dutch and French surtitles |
Brussels Kaaitheater +32 2 2015959 website |
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Tu 2 Nov 2010 21.00 French premiere |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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We 3 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Th 4 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Fr 5 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Sa 6 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Mo 8 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Th 11 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Fr 12 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Sa 13 Nov 2010 17.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Sa 13 Nov 2010 21.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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Su 14 Nov 2010 17.00 |
Paris Théâtre de la Bastille / Festival d'Automne +33 1 43574214 website |
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We 17 Nov 2010 | Dunkirk Le Bateau Feu +33 3 28514040 website |
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Th 18 Nov 2010 | Dunkirk Le Bateau Feu +33 3 28514040 website |
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Fr 19 Nov 2010 | Dunkirk Le Bateau Feu +33 3 28514040 website |
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Tu 23 Nov 2010 20.00 |
Toulouse Théâtre Garonne +33 5 62485477 website |
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We 24 Nov 2010 20.00 |
Toulouse Théâtre Garonne +33 5 62485477 website |
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Th 25 Nov 2010 20.00 |
Toulouse Théâtre Garonne +33 5 62485477 website |
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Fr 26 Nov 2010 20.30 |
Toulouse Théâtre Garonne +33 5 62485477 website |
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Sa 27 Nov 2010 20.30 |
Toulouse Théâtre Garonne +33 5 62485477 website |
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Th 2 Dec 2010 19.30 meeting with the company |
Lyon Le Point du Jour +33 4 78150180 website |
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Fr 3 Dec 2010 20.30 |
Lyon Le Point du Jour +33 4 78150180 website |
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We 8 Dec 2010 | Lisbon Teatro Maria Matos 00351 218 438 801 website |
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Th 9 Dec 2010 | Lisbon Teatro Maria Matos 00351 218 438 801 website |
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Fr 10 Dec 2010 | Lisbon Teatro Maria Matos 00351 218 438 801 website |
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Sa 11 Dec 2010 | Lisbon Teatro Maria Matos 00351 218 438 801 website |
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Th 16 Dec 2010 20.30 |
Antwerp Monty +32 3 2389181 website |
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Fr 17 Dec 2010 20.30 |
Antwerp Monty +32 3 2389181 website |
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Sa 18 Dec 2010 20.30 |
Antwerp Monty +32 3 2389181 website |
There is visual material by Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Yazan Khalili, two artists from Ramallah.
There is music by Sublime Frequencies, György Ligeti...
There are texts by John Berger, Etel Adnan, Mourid Barghouti, Mahmoud Darwish and Samih al-Qasim.
There are three dancers: Tale Dolven from Stavanger, Liz Kinoshita from Toronto and Federica Porello from Genoa.
There are four actors: Eve-Chems de Brouwer from Paris, Boutaïna Elfekkak from Paris, Mokhallad Rasem from Rabat and Frank Vercruyssen from Antwerp. **
This performance is perhaps a declaration of love to the wounded, downtrodden and abused cradle of civilization, which invariably rises again from the ashes, a reflection that goes beyond opinions, an abstract and personal testimony about people rather than about parties, about loss and injustice and their antonyms rather than about points of view.
Or perhaps it is simply a balancing act, a search for a way to speak about the Middle East without resorting to a simplistic, patronizing or neo-orientalistic attitude.
* The Fertile Crescent or Al Hilal Al Khaseeb is a waxing moon-shaped area, also called 'The cradle of civilization', which once encompassed the Orient, Old Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. Today the area roughly corresponds to modern Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and parts of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, south-eastern Turkey and south-western Iran.
** The performance was created in April 2010 with Eid Aziz from Nablus and Rojina Rahmoon from Damascus, both students at the theatre school in Damascus. Due to insurmountable problems with the school direction we had to replace these two actors for the tour in November and December 2010.
The next day I accompanied him to the ruin. There were several epicentres where everything had been reduced to dust, surrounded by tiny fragments. Except for pipes and wires no recognisable objects remained. Everything which had been assembled during a lifetime had gone without trace, had lost its name. An amnesia not of the mind but of the tangible.
(a quote from the book From A to X by John Berger)
music by Aswatt, Munir Bachir, Béla Bartók, Brahim El Belkani, Céline Bernard, The Bug, The Bug, Johnny Cash, Tom Chant, John Coltrane, Thierry De Mey, Said Fafy, Morton Feldman, Jimmy Garrison, Franz Hautzinger, Mahjoub Jaffer, Elvin Jones, Mazen Kerbaj, Abbes Larfaoui, György Ligeti, Said Oughassal, Max Roach, Scuba, Nasseer Shamma, Sublime Frequencies, Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui, Cassandra Wilson, Raed Yassin
thanks to Abbas Beydoun, Tony Chakar, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, An DHuys, Oussama Ghanam, Ramzy Haidar, Tarek Halaby, Cynthia Loemij, Lisa Risum Olsen, Chrysa Parkinson, Sara Sehnaoui, Hans J. Skogen, Christine Tohme, Sam Van Overschelde, Fabienne Verstraeten, the Belgian Embassy in Damascus
The performance will not be explicitly about the Israeli -Palestinian conflict and its consequences. We want to use our different outlooks and personal realities to talk about a more general, poetic or abstract sense of loss.
The Bulletin, Oonagh Duckworth, April 2010
the tangible
The texts are told as everyday stories. They hint at destruction, but circle just as much around more universal existential and philosophical questions. The three dancers move through a wide spectrum of expressions, between determination and desperation. The projected photos of buildings become art.
Bergens tidende, Ingvild Braein, 8 April 2010
scenekunst.no 20/04/10
dance, poetry and experimental music
Al-Akhbar 17/06/10
Play with global features
AFP Arabic Desk 19/12/10
Dreams come true
Bergen tidende, Ann Kristin Odegard, April 6th 2010
a performance by and with Eid Aziz, Tale Dolven, Liz Kinoshita, Federica Porello, Rojina Rahmoon and Frank Vercruyssen
with the participation of Jolente De Keersmaeker
visual material by Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Yazan Al Khalili
visual design Alex Fostier, Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Thomas Walgrave and Tim Wouters
light design Thomas Walgrave
sound design Alex Fostier and Frank Vercruyssen
technical coordination Raf De Clercq
translation Tania Tamari Anasir, Lore Baeten and Martine Bom
interpreter Lore Baeten
executive production Ann Selhorst
production tg STAN
coproduction by Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, Lebanon), Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris, France), Festival d'Automne (Paris, France), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse, France), Teatergarasjen (Bergen, Norway), Black Box Teater (Oslo, Norway), Teatro Maria Matos (Lisbon, Portugal), City of Antwerp
premiere April 7th 2010, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (NO)