Danas – Mawt Sagheer, first movement

Danas
Mawt Sagheer, first movement
dance performance

My sisters’ lamentations have raised in me the desire to dance.
My mother is crying over my grave. Her sobs make me want to sing.
Lying on top of me, a corpse. Its cold flesh and dying fluids try to seduce me, pulling my body in a perfect embrace, endless orgasm.
Sighs and stifled tears gush from my father as if to masturbate over my picture faded by time.

Danas exposes destitute bodies. Moving bodies in search of motivation, might it be a soul or anything that could make them reclaim their self-control. An instinctive quest for a meaning or a vanished reality. A reality condemned by religious texts and scientific progress. A reality whose only relief is to echo the farewell cries blaming its absence.
Danas inhabits the intimate moments of a buried body.
A body in a mass grave, In a morgue, At the bottom of the ocean, A body lifted by men in a funeral procession, A cremated body, A stuffed body, A body without skeleton nor hips, A schizophrenic body, Amnesic. Decapitated at birth and ignored by history.

Special Formula:Directed by: Ali Chahrour
Choreographed & performed by Ali Chahrour & Emilie Thomas Mansour
Voices: Layla Chahrour
Light design: Louise Parnel
Co-production: Maqamat Dance House and Institut Français du Liban
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Special Feature:Tickets: 15000 LL