Performances

Insomnia

Thursday, Apr 21, 2011
8:30pm -> 9:30pm
BIPOD 2011: The Arab Dance Platform 2nd Edition

“Gently they stir, gently rise, the dead are newborn awaken with ravaged limbs and wet souls, gently they sigh in rapt funeral, amazement, who called these dead to dance.” – Jim Morrison

There, where there is no time or place, no materials, neither logic or sense, unknown space, unknown time, they are swimming in echo of silence, without thinking, without a memory and without plans; they meet in that world, forever they are drifting, they don’t sleep to awake again, their pulse’s existence is fading out softly and fading in again, they move in their bubble, there is quiet and repose, they stay and belong, having insomnia with nothing to sleep for.

Muhanad Rasheed – Iraqis Bodies (Iraq Netherlans):
Born in Baghdad in 1985, Muhanad Rasheed is a dancer and choreographer. He has experimented with Butoh and contemporary dance, and further developed his dance experience through his own research. His first performance as a dancer and choreographer in The Last Breath, was awarded prizes such as the ‘Best Performer and Script’ in the Youth Theatre Festival in Jordan 2005. Following, Muhanad created his most important project Iraqis Bodies, a dance group, and Crying of My Mother (2007) the group’s first dance performance, which won the Danseclick selection in The Netherlands (2009) and Airowaves selections in London (2009). Since January 2009, Iraqis Bodies started touring Europe and the Middle East. The group is currently performing their second performance, Insomnia. Muhanad is also working on a new dance performance, Mourning, with the International Dance Theatre Company in Amsterdam; it was awarded the Swan Price (Best Production Holland) at the Dansdagen Festival in October 2010.

Special Formula:

Special Feature:Tickets:
15,000 L.L
25,000 L.L.
10,000 L.L. (Students)