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EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: BASIS FOR BEING نرگس

SINA SABERI (HAMBURG/TEHERAN)

The Iranian choreographer invites us as guests to a traditional house party in Tehran, featuring sweet pastries, tea, and dance. He searches through his own memories for what has been lost since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 made dance unwelcome in his homeland.

Sina Saberi’s most recent production, BASIS FOR BEING نرگس, was created during his eight-month residency at K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie in Hamburg. In it, he unites traditional and modern elements of Iranian dance and, almost unnoticed, tells of his own empowerment. The audience members are invited as guests to a traditional house party in Tehran; at the same time, they also take a trip through various states that, as the title suggests, form the basis of being. Saberi’s BASIS FOR BEING نرگس is a poetic and deeply personal work, and one of the highest concentration. Because, as Saberi describes: "I also understand dance as a kind of practice of attentiveness."

Sina Saberi discovered performing arts quite late. Only when the frustration at his office job at the UN grew too large, only when his body longed with more urgency for an expression through movement. Only then did he begin attending performance courses. First in physical theater, later in dance.

Born in Tehran in 1988, Saberi grew up in Iran. And thus in a country in which the situation for contemporary dance has been difficult since the Iranian revolution in 1979. All important dance institutions were dissolved then. Intellectual approaches to and artistic input in contemporary dance often only take place virtually. Sina Saberi carefully sketches the situation as a grey area and adds: "There is a lighter and darker grey."

From age 7.

No speech.

Both performances will be followed by a discussion.


A production by Sina Saberi in co-production with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg, euro-scene Leipzig, and Ballet National de Marseille. Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with resources from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Hamburg Cultural Foundation.

  • Wheelchair Accessible
  • No speech

CHOREOGRAPHY + PROJECT MANAGEMENT + DANCE Sina Saberi 
CO-CHOREOGRAPHY + DANCE Jorge De Hoyos, Bita Bell 
GUEST DANCERS Alexander Varekhine, Ava Jalali, Venetsiana Kalampaliki 
OUTSIDE EYE Tanin Torabi 
ARTISTIC SUPPORT Claire Lefevre, Alireza Bahrami 
VOICE TRAINING Marie Sophie Richter 
MUSIC + VISUALS Ali Phi 
LIGHT Sebastián Solórzano 
DRAMATURGY Niklaus Bein 
PRODUCTION Sina Rundel 
COSTUME Lea Theres Lahr-Thiele 
GRAPHICS Lukas Besenfelder
PHOTOGRAPHY Öncü Gültekin

Prices

  • Regular: 24,— €
  • Reduced: 12,— €

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible
  • No speech

Past dates

06.11.2024
Wednesday, 19:30
LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Saal
07.11.2024
Thursday, 17:30
LOFFT - DAS THEATER, Saal