AfterMyth
(And we shimmered as we crossed from one reality to another...)
Noha Ramadan
On three silver screens, we see projections of masked figures: they are dancing on a deserted, snow-covered beach. The figures dance among the remnants of a world that seems to have come to an end. They are cheerleading, performing pas de bourrées, and navigating a nameless, ambiguous future.
While the dance is endlessly repeated on the screen, other apparitions emerge from the darkness of the theatre hall. Screen and stage, video and text, video and dance flow into one another. Through the cinematic language of a pop-horror dream sequence, Noha Ramadan takes us into the inner world of a figure wrestling with monumental forces and stories.
Inspired by Rita Lucarelli's concept of doorscapes (a term she used to describe the many gates and guardians depicted in Egyptian funerary iconography) she presents them with a choreography of images and voices in motion.
• Noha Ramadan (1979) is an Egyptian-Australian choreographer, performer, and teacher who creates performances and organizes events with other artists, drawing on a long and continuous practice of dance improvisation. Their work makes use of a clearly articulated cinematic and poetic language that attempts to articulate the body's capacity for transformation and questions the premise of our shared reality. Ramadan lives in Amsterdam and is part of the city’s Jakoozi collective.
choreography & performance Noha Ramadan | dramaturgy & choreographic assistance Charlie Laban Trier | dance on screen Clara Saito, Eva Susova, Noha Ramadan | camera Charlie Laban Trier | video editing Julia Sokolnicka, Christopher Tym | lighting design Katinka Marac | sound design Boudy Scholten, S.M.Snider | technical direction Paul Beumer | production support Charlie Laban Trier | commissioned by The Consortium Commissions – an initiative of Mophradat, in partnership with Alkantara and Centrale Fies | co-produced by workspacebrussels, Life Long Burning - Ufer Studios, Frascati Producties | supported by Het Resort, Jakoozi, CSC/Centro per la Scena Contemporanea.
The track ‘Lungs’ by Oren Ambarchi is used with permission of the composer.
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This performance contains strobe lighting.
