Solo / Choreography : Diana Sabri
Photo montage: Diana Sabri
Lighting: Mike Toon
Michaelis Dance Theatre,Roehampton Campus – London, UK
Exploring representations of exile and colonial occupation through nudity in performance; How both Land and Body become vulnerable in the violent restrictions of cultivating one’s earth and the uprooting of the natural resources of life that give birth to Body and Land.
This piece developed from two main concerns: the nude body in performance and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
As a Palestinian of the diaspora who has not lived in exile and nor under the Israeli occupation, my approach developed mostly through the visual representations that one witnesses from the outside. As most representational and popular images of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation are ones of violence and resistance, I wanted instead to focus on the values of and reasons for resistance through images of the Palestinian landscape.
Exploring the relationship between land and body; between movement and image, and how as two separate elements they stimulate one another and form a context of struggle and co-existence. A body in its most vulnerable state; nude, organic, fertile and breathing in and out of landscapes that nurture its form.