Workshop: Jassem Hindi x PRODA
A dance workshop from the dance research for Sun Eaters, based on ruins of folk dances and the immersion in imaginary landscapes through suggestion and broken narratives.
It is inspired by figures and folk dances from West Asia, Brittany and Norway. It is an improvisation session where we will invent, on the spot, our own personal folk dances, using movements material and idiorythms created by crazy shepherds, lonely figures dancing on the top of mountains, in the middle of the forest, tigers, children, and legendary monsters. We will growl, twirl, crawl, we will make scary dances.
Information:
Location: PRODA Profesjonell dansetrening – Marstrand gata 8. 0566 Oslo.
Date: 06.02.25
Time: 10:00-12:00
For: Professional dance artists
The workshop is free
Bio:
Jassem Hindi is a Palestinian/French performer, sound artist and choreographer, born in Saudi Arabia and based in Norway. Hindi has an education in philosophy. His last works are Sun Eaters, a folk dance piece on petro demonology and horror poetry, Laundry of Legends – a series of dance performances based on death poems written by Etel Adnan, Stranger Within (with Mia Habib) – a research/performance about haunting and hospitality, and a lecture series called Betraying Utopia/Slime Utopia. His recent collaborators are Lara Kramer, Ligia Lewis, Keith Hennessy, Clara Furey, Simon Portigal, Justin de Luna, Harald Beharie, Charlott Utzig, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Ofelia Jarl Ortega, and Sina Seifee. He has also designed and created music for choreographers all over the world for the past decade. His work is shown internationally, and his collaborations have won numerous awards (Bessie Award, Dublin Fringe Jury prize, PICA Portland Jury’s choice, Hedda prisen, etc.). For the period of 2020-2023, he was the artist in residence at the MAI, Montreal, Canada.
Jassem Hindi's work looks at the double bind of haunting and hospitality, in an effort to reveal slow (unseen and quiet) violence and slow revolutions. His last recent performances make use of the relation between performance, poems and broken folk dance, to create immersive environments and collective platforms of imagination around painful subjects and negative commons.