Time to Meet - MARDOM
Showing by Sina Saberi
Time to Meet! Following his residency at Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE, Sina Saberi invites you to an Open Studio at Uferstudio 4.
In his interdisciplinary performance project “MARDOM” (wt), Sina Saberi deales with the topic of pain and justice. At its core lies the question: How does pain affect the individual body, and—as a result–the collective body/-ies? For “MARDOM” (wt) , the Iranian choreographerdraws on the allegory from Saadi Shiraz’s 13th century poem, Bani Adam, which conveys the message that each human being is part of a larger, all-encompassing human body. When one part is in pain, the whole suffers. The poem adorns one of the meeting halls of the UN headquarters in New York and has been used in political discourse as a call for empathy and shared responsibility. In Saberi's project, embodied movement, visual art and literature weave together into a lived experience, designed for public and semi-public spaces to question how despotic structures imprint themselves on our psychosomatic realities—and how bodies might respond, remember, or resist.
Sina Saberi
Sina Saberi (او) is an Iranian performer, choreographer and cultural manager. He studied Literature in Tehran and then began working in the Performing Arts. He is the Artistic Director of Kakeshan, an initiative that promotes the Iranian dance scene. His previous works have been shown at Fajr International Festival in Tehran, Rencontres Chorégraphiques in Paris, Kampnagel in Hamburg and Charleroi Danse in Brussels, among others. He has also been in residence at or was supported by Maqamat Dance in Beirut, DanceWeb in Vienna, Dancing on The Edge in Amsterdam, Tanzfabrik in Berlin and BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen.
Duration approx. 35 Min
Freier Eintritt. First come, first served.
Freier Eintritt. First come, first served.
Choreography: Sina Saberi
Dance: Alexander Varekhine, Elise Ludinard, Maxime Jeannerat & Anca Huma
Visual Art: Mina Mohseni
Music & Transmedia Art: Ali Phi
Dramaturgical Support: Guy Cools
Supported by Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Society, Berlin, within the framework of the Fellowship program "Weltoffenes Berlin." With friendly support as part of the residency programs of K3 Tanzplan Hamburg, CCOV Montreal, Tanzhaus Zurich, and Trois C-L Luxembourg.
At the Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE, the interdisciplinary performance project “MARDOM” (wt) takes place as part of the Fellowship Program “Weltoffenes Berlin.” The program funded by the Senate Administration for Culture and Societal Cohesion supports artists who must or want to leave their current countries of residence due to the political situation there in order to find a professional perspective in Berlin’s art and culture scene.