Flip Book Dance Perfomance at Al Madina Theatre

As part of the Home Works 6 Platform, Al Madina Theatre is hosting a dance performance directed by Boris Charmatz called “Flip Book”.

The performance is a free interpretation from the photographs in “Merce Cunningham, Un Demi-Siècle de Danse”.

Synopsis: “In Merce Cunningham, un demi-siècle de danse, all of Cunningham is there—pictures from every piece, and Merce is portrayed from the age of five. When I read this book, it came to my mind that the collection of pictures was not only about nearly all of his projects, it also formed a choreography in itself close to Cunningham’s processes to create dance: dance happens in between the postures, between two positions. And I thought we could invent a piece from this score of pictures, performed from beginning to end. On the one hand it would be a purely “fake Cunningham” piece, but on the other hand it could become a real [one], a meta-Cunningham event with a glimpse of his entire life and work… I consider this experience an integral part of our interest in archive, history and scores, which meets here its tumultuous dimension: the entire history of a life’s work becomes a book, which in turn transforms into a performance elaborated by a handful of dancers.” —Boris Charmatz

Advanced booking is required. To reserve, please call: 70.841.580