LOSING IT ! 19.3
The Organizers
Khashabi Theater مسرح خشبة
PREMIERE IN HAIFA
40 minutes
Age appropriate +12
“Can you still hear the bombs? I can hear them.”
In a new solo show, choreographer and actress Samaa Wakim questions how living in a war zone impacted the shaping of her identity. ‘Losing it’ examines how the trauma of previous generations penetrates our present body through movement and sound. Sama takes us back to the moment in which she began to fear losing her freedom. On the stage, she relives her childhood memories in the shadow of constant wars, analyses reality, and delves into an imagined world woven of fear and hope in an attempt to endure and survive. When fear overcomes her, her world turns upside down, the earth shakes, and the voices diminish, creating a third world in which reality and fantasy merge. The dialogue between the live music of Samar Haddad King and Sama’s vocals creates a world in which the voices that used to frighten or comfort us intercept in making the past and the present obscure the future.
Joint work of Sama Wakim and Samar Haddad King
Performance and Choreography: Samaa Wakim
Music: Samar Haddad King
Song: Autostrad Band - My Heritage Album
Lighting design: Cord Haldon
Partners in the production: Khashabi Theatre, Ya Samar! Dance Theatre, Theaterfurmann Festival - Germany.
The work was developed with a grant from the Goethe Institut.
About Organizer
Khashabi is an independent Palestinain theatre in the city of Haifa.It was founded in 2011 as the artists’ collective Khashabe Ensemble. In 2015 the group achieved a physical space in the Wadi Salib neighborhood that was emptied from the majority of its original inhabitants 1948. Khashabi works towards a Palestinian society that freely practices art and creativity as a natural right, and strives to renew its cultural identity by placing independent culture front and centre, and provides a space for artists to freely experiment, create, research and perform alternative forms of theatre and art, and space where social, political and artistic taboos can be challenged, creating an invigorating creative environment based on cooperation and mutual support.
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