Dance in Vancouver 2021: Zahra Shahab
The Dance Centre presents the 13th biennial Dance in Vancouver, celebrating BC’s contemporary dance scene
Date/Time: Nov 26 2021, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Vancouver, The Dance Centre | Event calendar677 Davie St
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Produced every two years Dance in Vancouver showcases Vancouver’s diverse and creative dance ecology. It is unique for its concentrated focus on promoting the province’s contemporary dance talent, not only to local audiences, but also to dance promoters and curators from across Canada and around the world.
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.”
Duration: 30 minutes
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