Do you enjoy open creative processes, are you interested in decolonizing practices, do you love to dance? Does exploring human-plant relationships through dance spark your imagination? Do you long to let your voice resonate with others? Do you (want to) practice letting go? Need to connect in community? Are you ready to encounter different, converging, artistic practices? Then the Festival Labs and Legacy & Seeds dance ritual performances may be for you!
The dance ritual (process and performance) holds a central role within DOTE Festival Legacy & Seeds. The dance ritual is open, participative and collaborative; different practices are developed and converge within it. You are warmly invited to join the Festival Labs on 28 & 29 November in Amsterdam, and 30 November & 1 December in The Hague. Or equally, to join the process for the first time in the dance ritual performances themselves.
The Festival Labs are led by choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry and composer Ahmed Saleh, building on -and in collaboration with- the ground work that Fazle Shairmahomed laid with artists-in-community Anima Jhagroe-Ruissen and Farah Rahman, plant spirits and all the people who participated in the Dance Labs, Henna Lab, Incense Lab.
FESTIVAL LABS (with Shaymaa Shoukry and Ahmed Saleh)
How can we shine on in dark times?
Releasing, falling, exhaustion, rest, (beyond) grief, body and land. How to offer mutal support, be in community? How can we be in solidarity? Exploring inner light, using light sources to explore seeing and the role of witnessing.
Shaymaa Shoukry shares a practice of releasing the voice and engaging the pelvis and the core to release the body. Working together with Ahmed Saleh whose compositions treat sound as an intangible body, a being that envelops the voices and bodies of all in the space.
Shoukry and Saleh work very intuitively, tuning in to each other and the composition of individuals within each Lab.
Fazle Shairmahomed will join and co-lead the fourth Festival Lab (1 December De Regentes, The Hague).
The Festival Labs are free to attend. If you participate in one or more Labs, you can join the dance ritual performance on 7 December in De Regentes (The Hague) for free too.
