D-CAF Urban Visions: "The Unpracticality of Beauty" and "Tender Violence" (Netherlands/ Egypt)
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Mar 20, 2015 2:30pm
Organized by: D-CAF - Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival
Venue: El Borsa Cafes, El Tahrir, Downtown, Cairo
Admission: free
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1561502480771086/
http://d-caf.org/?page_id=133&date=20150320


The Unpracticality of Beauty
This duet is about the universality of being a woman, her relationship to her inner women, inner men and ancestors. It also exposes her strength, her fragility, her hips, her hair – it all seems to be complex and often rather unpractical.

Tender Violence
This second duet explores the public, physical display of manhood, and how it differs majorly from culture to culture. This social arena is filled with unwritten rules, cultural norms, deep friendship, violence and unexpected intimacies.

Type: Dance
Company: The100Hands
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Dancers: Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj, Jasper Džuki Jelen, Mohamed El-Deep, Khadija Yusuf

‘The Unpracticality of Beauty’ & ‘Tender Violence’ are implemented in Alexandria with the support of Nassim el Raqs festival.
Nassim el Raqs festival is designed and produced by Centre Rézodanse – Egypte (Alexandria) and Momkin – espaces de possibles (Marseilles)
 

Dates:

Friday 20 March
02:30PM 
Borsa, The Egyptian Stock Market

Friday 27 March
05:00PM 
Meeting point, Moumar Moutafara St., off Nabi Daniel St., next to the French Institute

Saturday 28 March
05:00PM 
Meeting point, Moumar Moutafara St., off Nabi Daniel St., next to the French Institute

Sunday 29 March
08:00PM 
The Old French Consulate

 

THE100HANDS

Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj and Jasper Džuki Jelen explore human relationship, intimacy and collaboration in a physical, intensive manner. By combining their artistic backgrounds in contemporary dance, martial arts, sports and architecture, they create dance performances for the stage and site-specific works that are often interactive and accessible to a broad range of audiences.

www.the100hands.com