Does your body carry memories of birth or death?
The body is the place in Between Death & Birth. Listening to stories housed in our bodies through dance, storycircles, body mapping, writing and rewriting. Through collective research into how feelings/pain move between bodies.
The two main events, taking place in Cairo and Amsterdam, require your physical presence. The week is bookended by two online events, to which you are warmly welcomed to join (free registration) from anywhere in the world. Fed by artistic research labs in both Cairo and Amsterdam Between Death & Birth is also an experiment in how two cities can be in artistic resonance with each other.
The week:
Reading Room
Zeinab Charafeddine and Ian Nesbitt read pieces of writing on birth, death and entanglement. With space for conversation & reflection. (120 mins)
Language: English
Between Death & Birth Cairo
A performative sharing of objects, texts and questions created in the Death, Birth (& Rebirth) Lab. We will close the event by sharing a small meal together. Curated by Sara Fakhry Ismail with Halim Ramses. (240 mins)
Language: Arabic
Between Death & Birth Amsterdam
Collective performance with movement, music, storycircle and Lab traces. Shaymaa Shoukry, Dina Mohamed, Deirdre Donoghue, Ahmed Saleh. Event will conclude with a shared meal. (180 mins)
Language: English
Listening Circle
An invitation to reflect on the themes of the Between Death & Birth week in Cairo and Amsterdam.
(120 mins) Language: English
Tickets and all info below.
Description of Labs > Cairo Lab and Amsterdam Lab
