I Grew An Alien Inside of Me
by Rima Najdi
Created by Rima Najdi
Music: Kathy Alberici
Visuals: Ana Nieves Moya
Light Designer: Carola Caggiano
Dramaturge: Rayya Elzein
Costume Designer: Hagar Ophir
Graphic Designer: Maria Kassab
Production: Racha Najdi / Björk Margarit Roi
Outside Eye: Yalda Younes
Production: Rima Najdi
Co-production of Akademie Der Künste - Initial Programm (Berlin), L'art Rue (Tunis), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna) & Goethe-Institut.
In cooperation with Sophiensæle
Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Fonds Darstellende Künste
With Funds from the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of #takecare
A meditation on two of the most powerful human experiences – birth and revolution.
In her multi-media performance, Rima Najdi explores birth and revolution in tandem. Drawing on the memories and lived-through experiences of mothers in labor and street protesters, I Grew an Alien Inside of Me asks how the body is able to subvert, circumscribe, and repurpose meaning.
Digitized loops play with rhythm, repetition, breath, and anticipation, inviting audiences to engage with the reality of birth and protest. Far from following a linear logic or a singular ontology, the cyclical, chaotic experience of labor comes to mirror the frenzy of finding and losing comrades in the street, all the while drawing on a form of clarity and vision that cannot be reduced to outcomes. The resulting choreography is a meditation on two of the most powerful human experiences – birth and revolution.
> About Rima Najdi
Rima Najdi is an artist working at the intersection of performance, sound and choreography. She has worked in Beirut and New York before settling in Berlin. Her work occupies and (re)negotiates liminal spaces, focusing on the body’s vulnerability within the politicized tropes of gender, safety, mobility and representation. By allowing space for improvisation and play, her performances challenge the in-betweens of reality and fiction, physicality and emotion, the self and the other.
Practical information
Friday 23 September 2022 at 3.30 pm and 7 pm at Théâtre Le 4ème Art - Tunis
Languages: English and Arabic
The performance uses very loud music with heavy bass sounds. Hearing protection will be provided at the entrance. A smoke machine will be used. The performance includes interaction with the audience.
Duration
40-45 min.
Price information
5 TND