when ashes spiral + An Awkward Friend
P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Festival MA STUDIOS
Double bill
Performance 1
Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek
when ashes spiral
When ashes spiral, the human self is decentered into a transformative realm - a liminal environment where fluid beings rise, linger, and collapse. This cycle of transformation travels through states of detachment in mind and body. We engage in an animistic outlook in an attempt to free the fixed self to become multiple and changing. Rigid social constructions become watery and energies flow through different forms. How can we seep through the containers of our skin? When seeing the animate and the inanimate as a spectrum, what drifts in between? We celebrate impermanent natures and fleeting identities.
Performance 2
Géraldine Haas
An Awkward Friend
How can one's body recall grievous experiences and let emotions resurface within a liminal space between dream and reality? An Awkward Friend is a sensoriel attempt to draw nearer to the embodied sensations and memories around the loss of Géraldine's father. With the complicity of her friend Ine, she creates imaginary spaces for discomfort and uncanniness to emerge and resonate, for ghosts to appear, and for time to flow, expand and sometimes collapse.
An Awkward Friend
concept and choreography Géraldine Haas ⎸ created and performed by Ine Bonnaire, Géraldine Haas ⎸ choreographic assistant Pierre-Louis Kerbart ⎸ dramaturgy and mentor Krystel Khoury ⎸ outside eye Lara Ferrari -tummma- ⎸ scenography Géraldine Haas, Ine Bonnaire ⎸ costumes Ine Bonnaire, Géraldine Haas ⎸ awkward friends Naama Shoshana Fogiel Lewin, Carlos Landaeta Meneses, Mira Maria Studer
when ashes spiral
concept & direction Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek ⎸ performance & creation Rania Barhoumi, Osamu Shikichi, Jair Montes and Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek ⎸ scenography & costume Anthea Demoen ⎸ sound design Jair Montes ⎸ textual script Rania Barhoumi ⎸ mentor Sabrina Seifried, Bojana Cvejić
Upon request of the STUDIOS students the ticket income of the performances will be entirely donated to Living Stipends for Palestine, an initiative from Mophradat, supporting Palestinian artists affected by the current crisis with a 6-month stipend.
Each evening, after the performances, there will be PARTS t-shirts and scarves for sale. The profit will go directly to the same fund.
More information about the stipend:
https://mophradat.org/en/program/living-stipends-for-palestine/