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Dance In Vancouver: Zahra Shahab
Multiple Dates
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Nov 25th, 2021 @ 5:00 PM PSTStarts
Thursday Nov 25th, 2021 @ 5:00 PM PSTEnds
Nov 26th, 2021 @ 6:30 PM PSTEnds
Friday Nov 26th, 2021 @ 6:30 PM PSTScotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie St, Vancouver
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Zahra Shahab
Al-Fattah: when I bow, I see the opening (work in process)
Thursday November 25, 5pm
Friday November 26, 6pm
A new choreographic work (in process) created and performed by Zahra Shahab. It is a journey into the interior space of body memory and emergence as she listens to the history of Islamic prayer rituals in her bones and tethers them to compassionate intimacy with her flesh. It is a work about sitting back-to-back with the bound knot of her sensuality, tied up through patriarchal culture and religion, and gently rocking until an opening appears. It is a queering of ablutions – entering through the gate of the body, with all its desires, grief, bacteria, and secretions, into a place of worship. Al-Fattah is one of the 99 names of Allah which means “The Opener.”
Capacity is very limited: early booking is strongly advised.
Presented as part of the 13th biennial Dance In Vancouver, November 24-28, 2021.
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