HEALING ACROSS IMAGINATIVE SPACES
Berlin 1884–Mülheim 2024
16:00-16:15 | Opening Words | Nora Amin
Keynote to position the project and mention the subject of “Berlin
1884–Mülheim
an der Ruhr 2024: German colonial heritage then and now”
Nora Amin is a choreographer, dancer, theatre director, writer and researcher. She founded the Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Egypt (2000), where she choreographed, directed and produced 54 dance, theatre and music pieces. In 2011, she founded the nationwide Egyptian Theatre of the Oppressed project and its Arab network. She has lived in Berlin since 2015. She has been a lecturer for dance workshops at Tanzfabrik, Berlin Mondiale and Sasha Waltz & Guests, among others, since 2018. She is an expert/consultant at LAFT, a former mentor of the Goethe-Institut's MENA training programme and a board member of the German Center of the International Theater Institute. She holds a doctorate in Performing Arts and Cultural Policy from the University of Hildesheim.
16:15-16:35 Performance: 3 Brothers | Raphael Moussa Hillebrand
The choreographer and dancer Raphael Hillebrand draws upon a story from the time of the Nazi regime. Can we still relate to it? And if so, what significance does this story have in our lives today? He tells this story with passion and all the geometries of hip-hop, moulding his arms into rifles, guns and soldiers. He gives each of the brothers a character, allowing their self-chosen bravery to collapse against a foreign-made enemy.
This is a rare occurrence, even in hip-hop: that someone speaks while dancing, while describing the return home from captivity in a backflip.
Concept, Choreography & Performance: Raphael Hillebrand
Dramaturgy: Catherine Umbdenstock
Coproduction: Parc de la Vilette (WIP Vilette)
PREMIERE: Schauspielhaus Bochum & La Vilette Paris, 2012
17:00-18:15 | Lecture: Splittings and Divisions. With Frantz Fanon and Victor Klemperer on the Question of Solidarity | Dr. Leon Gabriel
The Berlin Conference of 1884 carried out a gigantic and momentous division of the African continent among the European colonial powers, the effects of which continue to be felt today and have an impact not least on bodies and relationships. The lecture takes this as an opportunity to examine the seemingly inconspicuous notion “divisions”: What are problematic forms of being divided? What would be a productive, even emancipatory understanding of division that can also open up spaces of solidarity? To answer this, we will first look at forms of splitting, self-alienation, and dissociation, as examined in particular by the Black French doctor and anti-colonial liberation fighter Frantz Fanon. Based on the analysis of the language of National Socialism by the Jewish scholar Victor Klemperer, it is then made clear how emotions divide us, which can indeed create dangerous divisions, but can also create potential lines of connection. This is followed by Fanon's approach of a radical humanism, which includes a divided but nevertheless connected being. Ultimately, this means enduring contradictions and ambivalences.
Leon Gabriel is a junior professor of theater studies with a focus on transnational theater at the Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests include the politics of representation, spatial arts, transnational and postcolonial theater and the decolonization of theater, dramaturgies and artistic working methods, among others in the context of the research project “Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of Violence. Transnational Theater between the Global South and North” (project website: www.dramaturgies-afterlife.de). Monograph: Stages of Alter-Mundiality. From the Image of the World to Spatial Theater Practice (Neofelis, Berlin 2021).
18:30-20:00 | Panel on arts as a medium of change & healing
with Raphael Moussa Hillebrand and Pasquale Virginie Rotter
Pasquale Virginie Rotter (no pronouns/ Pas) is a Holistic Facilitator, Somatic Coach, Body-Mind-Healer, Mediator and Author. They work on the intersections of body, movement, activism, trauma, healing and community and love to hold space to unlearn physical, emotional, mental and spiritual oppression. Over the last 15 years, Pas has developed several approaches and modalities to accompany groups and individuals in holistic transformation, liberation and healing processes.
Choreographer, dancer, curator, speaker, and activist Raphael Moussa Hillebrand was born in 1982 in Hong Kong. Rooted in Germany and West Africa, raised in Berlin and trained through hip-hop, he completed his master's degree in choreography at the University of the Arts - HZT Berlin in June 2014. His artistic work is a fusion of body and language, a creative journey through decolonial narratives that invite the audience to rethink entrenched ways of thinking. As an ideator and founding member of the world’s first hip-hop party, Die Urbane, he advocates for decolonization, empowerment, and cultural diversity, among other issues. With his charm and openness, Hillebrand is an artist through and through, recognizing that the body is a vehicle for courageously overcoming the social imbalances in our society. In 2020, he was honored with the German Dance Award for his outstanding artistic developments in dance.
20:30 | Performance: WOUND | Nora Amin
A Dance Healing Ritual by Nora Amin
Language: Spoken and projected text in different languages - German, English, Arabic, French, Spanish
I have a wound
A wound is what I got
Deep within the fabric of my cells Deep down Carving a hole
Across layers of geological flesh Scars
To mother earth
Not only the planet earth, its soil and nature carry the wounds of mass destruction across centuries of wars and colonisation, but our human soul also carries them. They become a wound to humanness, a genetic imprint across cultures and geographies. WOUND is a dance ritual that addresses grieving communities and collective mourning, towards the path of healing and reconciliation; to reconcile with the past, recognise the present, and construct a future via the human bonding and the bonding with nature, water and human body/soil.
Text, artistic direction, Choreography & Performance: Nora Amin
Music Co-Composition & Scenography: Ehab Abdellatif & Nora Amin
Calligraphy: Ehab Abdellatif
A production of Nora Amin
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Ort
Ringlokschuppen | Am Schloß Broich 38 | 45479 Mülheim an der Ruhr
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