HEALING ACROSS IMAGINATIVE SPACES

Champleins Ludovic Ngahenou is an artist, dancer and cultural promoter of Cameroonian origin. Passionate about art and culture, he discovered traditional dance at a very early age and developed a particular vocation for it. He was crowned Dauphin d'Or of heritage dances in Cameroon. He is one of the leaders of the Cameroon collective of dancers. He is the author of several choreographic creations, including WOMENDIA, which was nominated for the Prix Piscca by the French Embassy in Cameroon in 2022.

Clementine E Burnley lives and works between the UK and Germany. She is an anti-oppression trainer and a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy, studying the links between trauma, and conflict in groups. Her poems have been published in Gutter Magazine, The North, Magma, and The Poetry Review.

Her writing has been recognised by the Best Scottish Poems list, and the RSL Sky Award for creative nonfiction. Clementine’s first pamphlet, Radical Pairings, was shortlisted for the 2023 Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Award.

In her performance, the artist explores the myths and rumors surrounding the history of a film factory located in her hometown in northeastern Ukraine. Earthly and mythical beings, real stories, and fiction interweave to create a narrative about the conditions of female labor, human bodily fluids, and the materiality of film production. The artist sensitively and sensorially approaches themes of ritual and mechanization, as well as human vulnerability in the work process. Using visual art, voice, body, and electronic music, she crafts a story that exists on the threshold between reality and fiction.

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 in 2024 with WOUND - which is also shown on the opening day 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.