Alphabets of Flesh
“An associative performance that deserves to be seen because of the fluid merging of two opposing stage personalities, and the passionate choreography full of body language about that bubbling cocktail of 'flight', 'displacement' and 'come home'.”
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Alphabets of Flesh
In the dance performance Alphabets of Flesh, choreographer and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian makes you feel what it is like to be a body in diaspora. Together with dancer Mami Izumi, she envisions the fragmented experience of time and space of people who have left their native land. The here and there and the now and then merge into memories and dreams.
What remains of your ancestry if you are displaced? What experiences – also from generations before you – are stored in your body? In a sensory journey, Morrowatian searches for the feeling of home. Where and with whom is home? Can your body be your home? Do you need the past to define the ‘now’?
Alphabets of Flesh creates a temporary home in which differences are embraced and uprooting is a source of strength.
This performance premiered on October 5, 2024 at the Nederlandse Dansdagen in Maastricht. Check our agenda for all dates.
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Credits:
Concept, direction & choreography: Roshanak Morrowatian
Dance: Roshanak Morrowatian & Mami Izumi
Final direction: Nilay Ceber
Composition & music: Rutger Zuydervelt
Light design: Loes Schakenbos
Video research: Laisvie Andrea Ochoa Gaevska
Scenography: Isa Kasten
Costume design: Mieke Kockelkorn
Visual direction & photography: Afagh Morrowatian
Outside eye: Suzy Blok
Production: Stichting Rover
Co-production: ICK Dans Amsterdam, Parkstad Limburg Theaters & Nederlandse Dansdagen
Made possible by: Performing Arts Fund NL, Province of Limburg, Fonds 21, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, NORMA fonds, Gravin van Bylandt Stichting & Van Bijleveltstichting
Special thanks to: Korzo, DOX, Le Gymnase CDCN, Toneelgroep Maastricht, Toneelacademie Maastricht, Abbas Morrowatian & Mahnaz Heygharnejadi