Fringe Amsterdam - Iraqi Bodies
Audiovisual dance performance that explores the impact of migration and displacement on the body. Together with dancer Ali Zanad, maker and dancer Liza Sulaiman investigates how drastic changes in landscape and history manifest themselves fragmentarily in the body.
Fringe Amsterdam - Iraqi Bodies
Zoom in on feelings of grief
Travel through movement and image to a poetic universe, supported by the Arabic texts of Khazal Al-Majidi, where the body mourns a utopian past and transforms into the dystopian landscape that was once home: moving between here and there, between now and when.
Iraqi Bodies zooms in on the feelings of grief of members of the Iraqi diaspora, while paying tribute to every body that is forced to flee and leave the familiar behind.
Liza Sulaiman
Liza Sulaiman grew up in Amsterdam within an Iraqi and Belarusian family. At the age of 12, she started taking hip-hop lessons at Solid Ground Movement and danced in several productions by Alida Dors and Bryan Druiventak. After obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Law (2015), Liza started the Contemporary Urban dance course at the Fontys School of the Arts, where she graduated in Choreography (2021). In the following years, Liza was supported by Theater DeSingel Antwerp and ICK Amsterdam and worked on projects in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Search for nuances of the human experience
With her work, Liza wants to create a bridge towards the tragedy within ourselves and in the world. She focuses on the images we prefer to look away from, the untold stories and repressed feelings. Liza investigates how we relate to our own body and other bodies within an unjust world. Despite the charged themes, Liza is looking for the nuances of the human experience. Balancing on the border between commotion and stillness, tragedy and comedy, distance and proximity, connection and disconnection. Liza attempts to highlight and embody both the fragility and resilience of the human condition. With a poetic hope to find harmony within ourselves and with each other.
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Dates and times
Friday 6 September | 20:15 - 20:55 |
Saturday 7 September | 17:45 - 18:25 |
Sunday 8 September | 17:15 - 18:25 |
Fringe Amsterdam - Iraqi Bodies
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