Enad Marouf: And Now It Is Night – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Enad Marouf:
And Now It Is Night
And Now It Is Night
Arabic, with German and English surtitles
25€/20€/15€/10€
Berlin premiere
“It is better to follow the dark of the night
than to run after one’s life” you said,
to “follow the dark” can be
uncanny and unsettling,
for it resists the clarity of sight
forcing me to walk through the unknown
with no certainty.
In his works, Enad Marouf explores the fragmentary nature of memory, loss, and desire—their temporality and how they are embodied through poetry, gesture, and choreography. His group work And Now It is Night unfolds as a cruising dance between strangers—a dance of desire, but also of uncertainty and the unknown, a condition we all might endure.
The emergence and disappearance of movement, language, and sound, along with their fragmented interplay, invite the audience into a nonlinear story. Set within an architectural installation reminiscent of the old city of Damascus at night, the work becomes an unfolding meditation on grief, desire, memory, and uncertainty.
After the video installation Time of the Angel (2022) and the performances In My Hand a Word (2022) and HUNDSTAGE (2024), the Syrian-German performance and video artist Enad Marouf, winner of the Will Grohmann Prize 2023, returns to Sophiensæle with his work from K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg.
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Audience
- During the performance, the audience is invited to partake in the reading of a text. Each audience member chooses between taking part, just listening, or other forms yet to be discovered together.
Early boarding
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Concept, choreography, text: Enad Marouf
Performance: Arad Inbar, Jao Moon, Adam Russell-Jones, Samuel Pereira
Installation: Enad Marouf
Construction supervision, production: Jascha Kretschmann
Lighting: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Music: Bell Towers
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Voice-over: Majdolen Shalghin
Production management: Florian Greß
Enad Marouf is a Syrian-German performance and video artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on body and text, using video, dance, language and installation as poetics and articulation of temporalities that influence our physicality and the way we narrate the world around us. He completed his Masters in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen/Frankfurt. His solo works and collaborations have been shown at Sophiensæle, the Athens Biennale, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Centre culturel Francais de Damas, Babel Beirut, Tate Modern London, Art Institute of Chicago, Shedhalle Zurich, Kampnagel and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, among others. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Will Grohmann Prize.
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