Mentors: Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi (curation & dramaturgy), Ali Chahrour (performance & choreography), Annegret Schalke (lighting), Youssra El Hawary (sound)
Un|Controlled Gestures – 4th Edition
Ahmed Ben Abid, Christophe Al Haber, Dana Amer, Emran Alamareen, Hadir Nached, Moayed El Ghazouani, Momen Nabil
Programme and details from 16.4.
- Performance
- Dance
approx. 130 mins.
The project “Un|Controlled Gestures” has been taking place at HAU Hebbel am Ufer since 2019. The fourth edition brings together new works by seven choreographers from Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia. Following residencies in Cairo, Dresden and Berlin, HAU is offering insights into their performances in the creative process for the first time. The focus is on the theme of trembling: the artists search for a dance vocabulary around trembling and shaking – as a physical expression of political, social and personal experiences.
The works developed draw on layers of personal and collective memory. They open up individual artistic explorations and at the same time explore sources of strength, vulnerability, poetry and resistance. In a performative process, these forces are taken up, shifted and radically transformed.
“Un|Controlled Gestures” sees itself as a platform for choreographic works in contemporary dance that deal with body politics and poetics as well as intimate and collective memories – memories that go beyond the known and documented. The jury for the seven selected projects for this edition consisted of Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi, Ghada El-Sherbiny, Petra Poelzl and Samaa Wakim.
In addition, on 19 and 21 April, HAU will present works by Samaa Wakim and Islam Elarabi, who developed the still touring works “Losing It” and “Just One Tile” as part of “UnControlled Gestures”.
Team
Dates
Current
Price: 15 €, reduced 9 €
Combined ticket: 3 performances for 30 €, reduced 20 €
Every evening after the performance: Artist Talk
After the performance on 25.4.: Break @WAU
Credits
Un|Controlled Gestures – 4th Edition” is an initiative of the Goethe-Instituts in North Africa and the Middle East in cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer and HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden), curated by Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi.
Location
HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 BerlinHAU3 unfortunately is not barrier-free. Access to the theatre is via a stairwell (3rd floor). If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or email us at tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
