Elnebishy
205 Questions about Dance - 2023
This choreography is more than a fundamental question for dance. The dancers examine how dance itself can appear as a question. Through repetition, variation, and the rearrangement of movements, levels of meaning gradually overlap.
It questions the politicality of dance and the body - testing different ways of approaching what is political about dance and the body. This unfolds through the identities of two bodies on stage and the relations between them.
In 205 Questions about Dance, the audience is invited to embark on their own journey of perception and interpretation. If we can ask questions about and through dance, with the performers as its agents, the answers literally keep moving. But what is left at the end - unasked? How do our ideas, viewing habits, and movement patterns shape our perception of dance? How can dance set our perception in motion?
Concept and Choreography: Eslam Elnebishy
Performance: Sarah Altherr, Eslam Elnebishy
Light Design: Levi Schafhauser Sound Design: Hanna Launikovich
Presented in:
Tanzplattform Rhein Main, Mousonturm, Frankfurt - 2023
D-CAF Festival, Cairo - 2023
F°LAB Festival for Performing Arts, Frankfurt - 2024
A cooperation between Mousonturm and the Hessische Theaterakademie.
Produced by: Kulturamt Frnakfurt, Kulturamt Gießen and Arab Arts Focus
@Jörg Baumann