FOR ALL DANCERS & SINGERS (all movers and sound-makers)
To collaborate with international Cairo based artists on a participative and process-led body & voice performance project in Amsterdam.
Shaymaa Shoukry
Choreographer
Ahmed Saleh
Composer
This is an opportunity to be a part of the core group of dancers and singers who will work closely with Shoukry and Saleh to create and carry Tuning In throughout its collaborative creation & performance process. Tuning In will be created through a series of workshops. The workshops and performance (in public space) will include wider community participation.
workshops from 7- 17 June, various locations, Amsterdam.
performance 3 pm Saturday 17 June, Krugerplein, Amsterdam.
Fill out the form to join the core group. You will need to be able to attend several workshops and as well the performance.
Participation is free.
Click here to fill the form
creative process
Tuning In is a participative project developed from Shaymaa Shoukry’s recent choreography Womb. It takes inspiration from the connection and expression of the pelvis in relation to our core. Departing from Womb, which is a solo piece, Tuning In opens out to many bodies, their different histories, memories, backgrounds, abilities and experience in a collaborative and nonlinear workshop series.
body
Moving from our core, we’ll defy the social structures and mental codes which disrupt and misalign our natural balance. Reconnecting with the core, our powerhouse, to find it within ourselves to accept and liberate our pelvis, the centre of our creativity.
voice
We’ll use the voice as a tool of expression of the body to ‘tune in’ to ourselves and each other, to connect by listening. Both movement & voice are carried by Ahmed Saleh’s live composition in the workshops and the performance: his score begins with the beat of the drum as a minimal base, building in immersive layers around our voices.
performance
Tuning In concludes with a performance outdoors. The score will be an interplay between voice & body, weaving and making visible a web between people in an open invitation to the audience to join. ‘Reclaiming’ togetherness in public space, Tuning In becomes about connecting to each other core to core.
Tuning In is initiated and produced by Dancing on the Edge international performing arts festival and platform as part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival year of listening.
