ZANĀN
زنان
ZANĀN presents an evening of interdisciplinary performance art and experimental music, intertwining the themes of a diasporic sense of home, female place in society, and notion of modesty. ----------------------------------------
LOCATION: MATCHSTICK PIE HOUSE DEPTFORD 2022
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Performers:
Roxanna Albayati: Cello, Gheychak, Movement
Carolina Cury: Piano, Voice
Nefeli Erma Maliali: Voice
Emma Gerrett: Clarinet
Eva Escrich Gonzales: Dance
Evie Hilyer-Ziegler: Viola
Gosia Kepa: Percussion
Alex Lyon: Bass Clarinet
Siobhan Mccafferty: Violin
Hannah Shilvock: Bass Clarinet
Congling Wu: Violin
Mahsa Salali: Piano, Voice
Egle Saka: Visuals
ZANĀN is a female-led experimental music & performance art collective, co-curated by Mahsa Salali & Roxanna Albayati. It focuses on the sense of belonging and expression of artistic identity among diaspora cultures.
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Description: Sphere - The idea of the piece comes from the philosophy of Sufism culture and the dances of Whirling Dervishes. In Sufism, it is a common practice that in their everyday life they treat everything as an endless eternity, an infinity within life, a beyond without a start nor an end. The idea of this piece tries to capture the infinity of sound that has been started before ‘it plays’ or before ‘it is heard', the sound that has already begun and we are only capturing a moment of it, it is continuous and endless, does not have a start nor an end. The musical material of the piece is very minimal and changes over a very gradual process, allowing the sound and the shape of the sphere to sink in; The piece includes only 4 notes B C D E, where each note is introduced one by one and slowly added by the following note...
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Concentric: the only way forward is together