Zifzafa
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
When and where?
Friday, 10 october - 7:00 PM
Saturday, 11 october - 7:00 PM
Sunday, 12 october - 7:00 PM
Théâtre El Hamra
Concept, writing and performance: Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
Music composed by: Busher Kanj Abu Saleh (@busher_kanj)
Performed by: Busher Kanj Abu Saleh
Saxophonist: Amr Mdah (@amrsax)
Music: This Place by Busher Kanj.
Coproduction: Fondation Alserkal Arts, L’Art Rue / Dream City 2025, le CENTQUATRE-PARIS et le Festival d’Automne à Paris.
In the heights of the occupied Golan, the wind rises. It stirs the land, the stories and the bodies. Zifzafa — an Arabic word that stands for a wind that shakes everything in its path — gives its name to Lawrence Abu Hamdan's performance.
In this performance, speech, soundscape, and real-time simulation unite to confront an impending storm: the installation of giant turbines and the cacophony that, with them, erases.
But the wind, in this instance, presents resistance. It carries songs, cries, memories. It documents what the noise tries to silence. Composed by Busher Kanj Abu Saleh and performed along with Amr Mdah, this performance captures the air as one holds a microphone toward the invisible.
Zifzafa questions old modes of coexistence with air and sound, now broken. The wind becomes a front line, a breath of struggle, a living archive.
The National | Audio essay in Dubai turns up volume of Syrian Jawlani community's opposition to Israeli project | article en anglais
Practical information
El Hamra Theatre (map)
10th, 11th and 12th october at 19h
Languege : english Overtitling in French
Duration
45 min
Price information
Single ticket: 5 DT
Reduced rate: 3 DT for students on presentation of student card for childrens < 12 years old
Free: for residents of the medina on presentation of proof of residence
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