Losing it
de Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King
Friday, 27 september - 8:30 PM
Saturday, 28 september - 8:00 PM
La commune d'Aubervilliers
Stage Direction Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King.
Choregraphy and performance Samaa Wakim.
Music and instrument: Samar Haddad King.
Lights: Cord Haldun.
Technical direction Philippe Elstermann.
Music Turathy-Autostrad.
Production Samaa Wakim
Coproduction Theaterformen Festival, Yaa Samar! Dance Theater & KhashabiTheater
"Losing it" was created as part of the Goethe Institute's "Un|Controlled Gestures?" project (2019-2020).
Création 2021@Festival Theaterformen Hanover, Germany.
Delegated production Sens Interdits With the support of ONDA-Office National de Diffusion Artistique, Wevioo and Focus
Video
In Losing It, Samaa Wakim uses a dance solo to explore the repercussions of being a child in a war zone, exploring how this experience shapes her identity. She questions the trauma of past generations, manifested in her body, evoking through movement and sound the memories of her childhood and the imaginary world she created to survive. Accompanied by the sounds she produces and live music by choreographer Samar Haddad King, she oscillates between fear and hope, between the distressing and comforting sounds of her past.
