What happen when seven dancers absorb themselves in ancient, unknown and strange rhythmical patterns?
- Duration70 min
- Price360
- StageMain stage
Dates & times
“Tarab” happens when a body is gripped by the music, and physical sensation is enhanced. This heightened moment, when body and music unite, is a door to ecstasy and enchanted sensuality. In TARAB, the last part of a trilogy, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh focuses on unexplored and, in some places, forbidden movement material and odd rhythmic patterns of Pre-Islamic, West Asien cultural heritage. Dance and music material that has undergone multiple forms of Eurocolonial and Islamic translations, in which women, from being the primary holders, got either reduced to sexualised oriental entertainer-dancers or forbidden from practising them all together. Accompanied by the complex rhythms of the composer and virtuoso percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, seven dancers embody these millennia-old movement materials.
TARAB is about imagining a possible dialogue between those dance worlds and the contemporary dance language without shying away from the colonial dynamics between the two.
Contributors
- Artistic co-direction & choreography
Ulduz Ahmadzadeh
- Artistic co-direction & scenography
Till Jasper Krappmann
- Composition, sound design & live music
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
- Dance
Desi Bonato
Naline Ferraz
Luca Major
Yiannis Tsigkris
Livia Khazanehdari
Polina Kliuchnikova
Hugo Le Brigand - Light design
Jan Wielander
- Production
Mascha Mölkner
- Foto
Maximilian Pramatarov
The perfromance is presented in cooperation with AEROWAVES - Dance across Europe
Tour management: partner in crime
Production: ATASH عطش contemporary dance company
Co-production: Tanzquartier Wien
Supported by: City of Vienna, Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports
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