Part of ProtoZone17: Stories of those left behind, 15.11.2024-12.01.2025
And Now It Is Night
In his work, Marouf explores the fragmental nature of memory, loss and desire, their temporality and how they are embodied through poetry, gesture and choreography. For this edition of ProtoZone17 Marouf is presenting an iteration / Stanza for two dancers from his performance “And Now It is Night”. „And Now It is Night“ explores a cruising dance between two strangers. A cruising dance of desire as well as a cruising dance with the unknown and uncertainty. A condition we might all endure. The process of emergence and disappearance of movement, language, sound and light and the fragmented interplay between these formal elements is an invitation to witness a nonlinear story: an unfolding meditation on grief, desire, memory and uncertainty.
Cast:
Concept, Choreography, Text: Enad Marouf
Co-choreography, performance: Arad Inbar, Samuel Pereira
Music: Bell Towers
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
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.
A production by Enad Marouf, in co-production with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. The guest performance is supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.