we ♥ 2 raqs
Tümay Kılınçel
Based on raqs shari, the so-called belly dance or oriental dance, "we ♥ 2 raqs" confronts and deconstructs orientalist and colonialist imagery. In this choreographic performance dancers Dina Abdelhafez, The Darvish, Lia Pavlidis, Suzan Demircan, Marilyn Nova White create a collective body of raqs through their interpretation of oriental dance and divergent genres such as tribal fusion, American tribal style, fusion, voguing, baladi and contemporary dance. Kanun player Dima Dawood, percussionist Sultan Kara and singer Leila Moon accompany them with music. After the solo work "Dansöz", dancer and choreographer Tümay Kılınçel and dramaturg Berna Kurt now take their raqs collaboration further, recontextualising dance as a feminist, self-empowering practice.
Dance & Co-Choreography: Dina Abdelhafez, The Darvish, Lia Pavlidis, Suzan Demircan (Zadiel Leyla Sasmaz), Marilyn Nova White
Musical Direction, Arrangement, Production: Leila Moon
Percussion: Sultan Kara
Kanun: Dima Dawood
Dramaturgy: Berna Kurt
Lightdesign, Technical Direction: Catalina Fernandez
Light technique: Raquel Rosildete
Costume & stade design: Kathi Sendfeld, Merve Çelikyurt
Expert Advisor: Nora Amin
Assistant director: Rui Wu
Make up artist: Elliot de Jahnsen
Production: produktionsDOCK, Annina Birrer
Photo & video documentation: Katharina Seibt
Production: Tümay Kılınçel
Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm as part of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, FFT Düsseldorf, Kaserne Basel
Funded by: NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Kunststiftung NRW, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, City of Frankfurt am Main – Department for Culture and Science, Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts, Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, Expert Committee Dance & Theater Basel-City/Basel-Country.
