Workshop Presentations: Frankfurt Moves!
As part of Frankfurt Moves!, four international artist-teams were invited by KfW Stiftung and Frankfurt LAB to develop new artistic productions in the field of performing arts and to engage in exchange with other cultural practitioners in Frankfurt. At the end of the residency, the artists will open the doors to the rehearsal halls, to let you partake in their creations and to enter into a dialogue.
The directors and actors Hana Abdelnabi and Hend Abu Hassanein have collected oral histories by women, to bring their lives and concerns through the story-telling format Al-Hakawati onto the stage. The interdisciplinary artist Wezile Harmans takes the “broken telephone”-game as a starting point, to ask questions about belonging and exclusion as well as (informal) means of knowledge transfer. Who is talking and who is made to listen? Mehdi Dahkan, choreographer and dancer, currently works on the solo piece “Subject To,” which is part of a trilogy on the wish of young people to emigrate. What happens, if external immobility meets internal longing? Immigration is of interest to Omayra Martínez Garzón as well, both personally and as an artist: The performer and producer was forced to leave her home in Colombia as a child. Using object theatre and video mapping, she investigates the individual and global trauma of displacement and war. The dancer and choreographer Trần Minh Hải tackles the subject of “truth,” especially under conditions of state censorship and oppression. What do we believe and how can we stay true to our own truth?
All pieces were accompanied by the dramaturgist Asja Mahgoub.
Frankfurt Moves! is an initiative of the foundation KfW Stiftung aimed at promoting international and contributing to the diversity of the regional cultural landscape in Frankfurt am Main. The residency programme in cooperation with the Frankfurt LAB aimed at promoting emerging international artists in the performing arts sector.
Image Credits
01. Artists and Partners from Frankfurt Moves!, Photo: Stephan Sperl
02. Hana Abdelnabi, Photo: Abdullah Al-Maghari
03. Hind Abu Hassanein, Photo: Abdullah Al-Maghari
04. Mehdi Dahkan, Photo: Yassin Abouhamid
05. Trần Minh Hải, Photo: Trần Minh Hải
06. Wezile Harmans, Photo: Kane Liam Lucas
07. Omayra Martínez, Photo: Rodrigo Chavero
Facts
Date: Sat, 14. Oct 2023, 17:00 Uhr
Location:
Frankfurt LAB
Schmidtstraße 12
60326 Frankfurt am Main
Admittance 5 pm
Free admission
Further information can be found on the Website of Frankfurt LAB.
