Ulduz Ahmadzadeh / ATASH عطش contemporary dance company

TARAB
Performance
Erstaufführung

13.10 + 14.10.2022, 19.30
TQW Halle G, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien

In Arab and Iranian culture, “tarab” happens when a body is gripped by the music, and physical sensation is enhanced. This heightened moment, when body and music unite, is a door to ecstasy and enchanted sensuality. In TARAB, the last part of a trilogy, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh focuses on unexplored and, in some places, forbidden movement material and odd rhythmic patterns of Pre-Islamic, Middle Eastern cultural heritage. Dance and music material that has undergone multiple forms of Eurocolonial and Islamic translations, in which women, from being the primary holders, got either reduced to sexualised oriental entertainer-dancers or forbidden from practising them all together. Accompanied by the complex rhythms of the virtuoso percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, five dancers embody these millennia-old movement materials. TARAB is about imagining a possible dialogue between those dance worlds and the contemporary dance language without shying away from the colonial dynamics between the two.
Ulduz Ahmadzadeh / ATASH: TARAB - Dance -Tashweesh - TQW

 

VIDC performance offers € 5 instead of € 25
In addition to numerous free festival contributions, we have two very special performances on offer for you at a heavily discounted ticket price of € 5 instead of € 25. You can easily get the tickets via TQW webshop (by entering the code) see below the ticketing link. We would be very happy to welcome you at the Tashweesh Festival!

Invitation to the art festival Tashweesh from October 7 to 15 at the Tanzquartier Wien
Tashweesh (Arabic for "disruptive noise") is an interdisciplinary art festival that aims to facilitate new feminist alliances and provide a platform for art and research practices on intersectional feminism in Europe, Southwest Asia, and North Africa. The diverse program consists of: Performances, lectures, discussions, workshops, film contributions, visual arts and last but not least a party night. The festival contributions will address the following topics: Stereotypes, queer and trans utopias, gender , body, public space as well as activist strategies and feminist revolutions. Many of the program contributions are free. Here you can find all information about the TASHWEESH FESTIVAL: https://tqw.at/festival/tashweesh/