Enad Marouf: Losers – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Enad Marouf: Losers
In Arabic, the word for “trace” is “athar” which also means “ruin”. In this new work by artist and choreographer Enad Marouf the word “athar” refers to what remains, signifying that something no longer fully exists, a fragment. Athar does not take a singular form, it is both: a proof of absence and a remnant of existence.
In a similar way, the work revisits the 1960s and early 70s as a significant time of political change and marking the birth of liberation movements including the student uprisings across the globe. In many ways that era resembles ours in this current moment. Yet, the differences run deep. Back then a political imagination and a promise of the future felt possible—something that seems very difficult to imagine today. The performance seeks to bring audience and artists together as a collective in the theater: tracing a moment of time, space and loss—and at the same time the possibility of thinking together.
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
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.
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