Enad Marouf: ATHAR – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Enad Marouf: ATHAR
Im Arabischen ist „athar“ das Wort für „Spur“ – und zugleich für „Ruine“. In dieser neuen Arbeit des Künstlers und Choreografen Enad Marouf bezeichnet „athar“ das, was bleibt: ein Zeichen dafür, dass etwas nicht mehr vollständig existiert, ein Fragment. Athar nimmt keine eindeutige Form an, es ist immer beides: Beweis einer Abwesenheit und Überrest eines Daseins.
Die Performance kehrt zurück in die 1960er und frühen 70er-Jahre – eine bedeutende Zeit des politischen Wandels und die Geburtsstunde von Befreiungsbewegungen und Studierendenprotesten rund um den Globus. In vielerlei Hinsicht ähnelt jene Epoche unserer Gegenwart. Doch die Unterschiede reichen tief. Damals schienen eine politische Vorstellungskraft und ein Versprechen von Zukunft noch möglich – etwas, das sich heute nur sehr schwer denken lässt. Die Performance möchte das Publikum und Künstler*innen im Theater als Kollektiv zusammenbringen: auf der Spur eines Moments von Zeit, Raum und Verlust – und zugleich der Möglichkeit, gemeinsam zu denken.
In simple words
“Athar” is Arabic for “trace” and “ruin.” Enad Marouf made a performance about this. It looks back to the 1960s. At that time, there were many protests, but also hope for the future. Today, this hope is often missing. The audience can come together and think together in the theatre.
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Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
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Concept, choreography: Enad Marouf
Performance: Ronald Alonso Berger, jee chan, Kiana Rezvani
Voice: Majdoleen Shalgheen, Bassyma Saad
Music: Cem Dukka
Light: Jacqueline Sobiszewski
Stage: Enad Marouf
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Choreographic assistance: Samuel Pereira
In conversation with: Franziska Aigner, Edwin Nasr
Production management: Florian Greß
A production by Enad Marouf in co-production with Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
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.