Performance 
Rima Najdi

I Grew an Alien Inside of Me

Rima Najdi

is a Berlin-based performance artist. Her work occupies and (re)negotiates in-between spaces. She grapples with how identity is constructed and perceived, focusing on the body’s lived experience. She is interested in the body’s vulnerability in relation to the politicised tropes of gender, safety, mobility and representation through diverse mediums (performance, costume design, video installations, poster production). She challenges established social and aesthetic “norms” and pushes the boundaries of the personal in pursuit of the body’s capacity to reclaim political knowledge through art. Najdi’s work has been presented at several international festivals and venues. Among her upcoming and recent performances: Dress ME how YOU like & Happy New Fear, Prague Crossroads Festival (2019). Think Much. Cry Much. Spring Festival, Utrecht (2018), Spielart Festival, Munich, Happy New Fear, Bodies Beyond Borders, Copenhagen, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz (2017).

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Credits

Created by Rima Najdi Visuals Ana Nieves Moya Light designer, technical director Carola Caggiano Music Kathy Alberici Additional music, sound design Sary Moussa (Tunefork studios) Sound consultant Sandy Chamoun Costume designer Hagar Ophir Dramaturge Rayya ElZein, Elisa Liepsch Outside eye Tania El Khoury, Yalda Younes Graphic designer Maria Kassab Production Racha Najdi, Björk Margarit Roi Tour manager Nara Hawi Curated by Tania ElKhoury and Bochra Triki – A production by Rima Najdi in co-production with Tashweesh Festival, Akademie der Künste – INITIAL Programm (Berlin), L’Art Rue (Tunis), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Goethe-Institut (Brussels), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna). In cooperation with SOPHIENSÆLE (Berlin). Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of #takecare. A heartful thank you Yassu, Basma, Maryam , Rabiha, Zeinab, Samia, Rana, Sandy, Nisreen, Reem, Salma Samar, Layal, Aïsha, Hinda, Emily, Nadine, Bettina, Soufyen, Soufyen, Mhamad Salah, Mich, Fede, Ahmad, Ziyad, Eyal, AL Berlin, Sandra, Janez, Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT), La Caminada Studio, Faysal, Taymur Shams, and all beautiful technical directors, technicians and theatre directors who supported us during this work.

Tashweesh is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

I Grew an Alien Inside of Me

A meditation on two of the most powerful human experiences – birth and revolution.

In this multi-media performance, Rima Najdi explores birth and revolution in tandem. Drawing from the remembered, felt experiences of mothers in labour and protesters in the street, I Grew an Alien Inside of Me asks how the body can subvert, circumscribe, and repurpose meanings of the event. Digitised loops play with rhythm, repetition, breath, and expectation and invite audiences to engage and interact with testimonies of giving birth and participating in a protest. Far from following a linear logic or a singular ontology, the cyclical, chaotic experiences of labour and finding and losing comrades in the street point to a different kind of clarity and vision that cannot be reduced to outcomes. The resulting choreography invites reflections on the most powerful of human experiences – those of giving birth and participating in a revolution.

Rima Najdi

is a Berlin-based performance artist. Her work occupies and (re)negotiates in-between spaces. She grapples with how identity is constructed and perceived, focusing on the body’s lived experience. She is interested in the body’s vulnerability in relation to the politicised tropes of gender, safety, mobility and representation through diverse mediums (performance, costume design, video installations, poster production). She challenges established social and aesthetic “norms” and pushes the boundaries of the personal in pursuit of the body’s capacity to reclaim political knowledge through art. Najdi’s work has been presented at several international festivals and venues. Among her upcoming and recent performances: Dress ME how YOU like & Happy New Fear, Prague Crossroads Festival (2019). Think Much. Cry Much. Spring Festival, Utrecht (2018), Spielart Festival, Munich, Happy New Fear, Bodies Beyond Borders, Copenhagen, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz (2017).

rimanajdi.com
Video portrait 

Credits

Created by Rima Najdi Visuals Ana Nieves Moya Light designer, technical director Carola Caggiano Music Kathy Alberici Additional music, sound design Sary Moussa (Tunefork studios) Sound consultant Sandy Chamoun Costume designer Hagar Ophir Dramaturge Rayya ElZein, Elisa Liepsch Outside eye Tania El Khoury, Yalda Younes Graphic designer Maria Kassab Production Racha Najdi, Björk Margarit Roi Tour manager Nara Hawi Curated by Tania ElKhoury and Bochra Triki – A production by Rima Najdi in co-production with Tashweesh Festival, Akademie der Künste – INITIAL Programm (Berlin), L’Art Rue (Tunis), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Goethe-Institut (Brussels), Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna). In cooperation with SOPHIENSÆLE (Berlin). Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of #takecare. A heartful thank you Yassu, Basma, Maryam , Rabiha, Zeinab, Samia, Rana, Sandy, Nisreen, Reem, Salma Samar, Layal, Aïsha, Hinda, Emily, Nadine, Bettina, Soufyen, Soufyen, Mhamad Salah, Mich, Fede, Ahmad, Ziyad, Eyal, AL Berlin, Sandra, Janez, Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT), La Caminada Studio, Faysal, Taymur Shams, and all beautiful technical directors, technicians and theatre directors who supported us during this work.

Tashweesh is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport.

07.10.+
Fri
19.30
80 min
08.10.
Sat
19.30
21.00
80 min
07.10.+
Fri
19.30
80 min
08.10.
Sat
19.30
21.00
80 min
TQW Halle G
€ 25/20/10

In English and Arabic
Limited number of seats

The performance uses loud music with heavy bass sounds. Hearing protection will be provided at the entrance. A smoke machine will be used. The performance includes interaction with the audience.

Remaining tickets are available the day before from 12.00 in the webshop and at the evening box office.

 
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