HEALING

How can a ritual be practised within institutional spaces that are originally created for theatre and performances? How can the artists collaborate with the spectators to initiate a moment of togetherness and human bonding? And how can such a performative encounter stimulate healing and momentarily transform the initial histories of the space and the community?

HEALING comes as the second part of the sequel of rituals that Nora Amin has launched with WOUND -which will be also shown as part of HEALING ACROSS IMAGINATIVE SPACES. With the musician and calligraphist Ehab Abdellatif, Nora Amin delves into the worlds of spiritual awakening, holistic knowledge, unity of existence and the inspirations of Eastern philosophies and Sufism. In her poetry, vocalisation and choreography, Nora attempts to recreate a moment where the humanness reconnects with the wisdom of nature, the rationale of ecology and the ancestral trans generational embodied archives. Her dancing body becomes a medium that communicates past, present and the desired future, a body of transforming projections, while guiding the community of spectators to reunite once again, to become active partners in the ritual of reconstruction and repair, and to contribute to the energies created during the ritual.

While WOUND confronts the universal and historical trauma of mass destruction, wars, colonialism and dehumanisation, HEALING becomes an exercise to practise a collective and momentary transcendence of the pain. A transformative ritual of retrieving our human force of repair and healing.

Poetry, artistic direction, choreography & performance: Nora Amin

Languages: Multiple