

Laundry of Legends 2
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Laundry of Legends is a dance performance based on The Arab Apocalypse, by the late Lebanese poet Etel Adnan. It is a death poem. This particular text is an oracle making, death fuelled time-machine, transformed by dancing bodies. Death poems emerge when there is a gathering. They start in the body, and reassemble themselves within us in fragments.
Death poetry is a special kind of political healing; baroque, cruel, and cosmological. It offers hospitality, companionship, by giving concrete indications on how to surrender, how to betray death, how to be playful with absence.
For this piece, Etel Adnan and her poem The Arab Apocalypse, tells us where to look – at the way children dance, or how corpses still retain invisible movements, or when bodies are crouching, shaking, bent in threatening postures.
This dance work by Jassem Hindi is performed by Justin de Luna, Clara Furey and Simon Portigal, with poems by Etel Adnan, CA Conrad, and Aase Berg.
*Please note that all tickets sold are non-refundable and non-exchangeable, except in the event of a show cancellation by Festival Accès Asie.
**Late arrivals will not be accepted.
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Laundry of Legends is a dance performance based on The Arab Apocalypse, by the late Lebanese poet Etel Adnan. It is a death poem. This particular text is an oracle making, death fuelled time-machine, transformed by dancing bodies. Death poems emerge when there is a gathering. They start in the body, and reassemble themselves within us in fragments.
Death poetry is a special kind of political healing; baroque, cruel, and cosmological. It offers hospitality, companionship, by giving concrete indications on how to surrender, how to betray death, how to be playful with absence.
For this piece, Etel Adnan and her poem The Arab Apocalypse, tells us where to look – at the way children dance, or how corpses still retain invisible movements, or when bodies are crouching, shaking, bent in threatening postures.
This dance work by Jassem Hindi is performed by Justin de Luna, Clara Furey and Simon Portigal, with poems by Etel Adnan, CA Conrad, and Aase Berg.
*Please note that all tickets sold are non-refundable and non-exchangeable, except in the event of a show cancellation by Festival Accès Asie.
**Late arrivals will not be accepted.
- Refunds
- No refunds
- Exchanges
- No exchanges
Jassem el Hindi
French Lebanese\Palestinian artist living in Norway. Works with sound, installations and choreography. He uses the double bind of haunting and hospitality as a way to articulate political realms. His work is based on ruins of folk dances and broken poems to create dark cosmological worlds, Some of his dance and sound works have been translated into visual and sound installations. His latest pieces, Laundry of Legends and Sun Eaters, are inspired by Arabic death poems (Etel Adnan, Nazik el Malaika), gothic poetry (Aase Berg, Tor Ulven) and contemporary folk dances from Norway, Brittany and West Asia. He performs and presents his work internationally from Montreal to Seoul. His work as a sound artist has been featured in numerous award winning dance performances around the world. He is one of the founding members of the Palestinian Agency.
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