by and with Modjgan Hashemian, Labwa Arab, Aya Mansour
Choreography and Dance: Modjgan Hashemian
Play: Labwa Arab
Text: Aya Mansour
(Arab. with engl. subtitles)
IN_VISIBLE
German-Iraqi Lecture Performance
Performances
October 29 and 30, 2016
@ Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Uncertain States - Exhibition Project Adk
The German-Iraqi joint lecture performance IN_VISIBLE addresses the experiences of women in confinement - in the Iraqi society and a Berlin prison.
Labwa Arab plays Dijla (Arabic for Tigris), a young Iraqi lady who was granted to go by bicycle since she was a little girl. The young Dijla takes the audience on her bicycle tour through Iraq and tells the stories of the women she meets on her way. These are authentic stories, written by the Iraqi author Aya Mansour.
Modjgan Hashemian combines language with movement and dances the sometimes painful feelings and thoughts of women who can not move freely. Her dance fuses thoughts and feelings and expresses pain and joy.
IN_VISIBLE is a though-provoking gesture to inspire women to believe in themselves and stand up for their rights. IN_VISIBLE is a telescope which enables to a foreign public an insider's view of the Iraqi society and culture. IN_VISIBLE is a collaborative process, thoughts and feelings have blended together to finally form this artwork, which brings to the fore the commonalities.
IN_VISIBLE was developed by Modjgan Hashemian and TARKIB Baghdad Contemporary Arts Institute and in co-production with the Akademie der Künste. The guest performances in Berlin and Baghdad are kindly supported by the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institute, ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and the Roberto Cimetta Fund and with the help of EMCUE e.V. and aufBruch - Kunst, Gefängnis, Stadt.
Dramaturgy: Anke Sauerteig, Hayder Joma
Stage: Farzad Arkhavan
Costumes: Nastaran Rabbani
Music: Oliver Doerell
Light: Asier Solana
Documentation: Deema Ahmed
Translation: Shahira Issa
Production Management: Hella Mewis
The dancer and choreographer Modjgan Hashemian lives and works in Berlin. She graduated at the Ernst Busch Academy for Dramatic Art and her Persian roots are an essential component in her artistic work. In her dance stories she deals with language, movement, themes and scenes of the daily life and take the audience on a journey through the everyday life of different cultures.
Labwa Saleh graduated in Modern Drama from the London Brunel University in 2008. From 2009 to 2012 she lived and worked as a theater and film actress in Syria. 2012 she went back to Baghdad. She mainly worked with the theater director Mohanned Hadi, the film director Raad Muschatat and the children theater director Ahlam Arab. Her current focal point as an actress and director is drama therapy and children theatre.
Aya Mansour studied educational science and graduated in 2012. Since 2010 she works as a freelance writer. 2013 she published her first book of poems "A Woodland Full of Fingers", which reached the first place of the bestseller-list in the MENA-region. Her second book, an anthology of prosas describing events since the ISIS-crisis, was just published. As a freelance journalist she published articles in the magazine Shabaka Iraqia, Al Maghreb and Al Safir newspaper. in_visible is her first playwright.
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