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Waiting forbidden 2009
Waiting forbidden 2009
Waiting forbidden 2009
Waiting forbidden 2009
Waiting forbidden 2009
Following the successful Syrian coproduction, Le Grand Cru continued a coproduction with Jordan as an assignment of the Dancing on the Edge Festival. The cast consists of two Jordanian and one Dutch dancer of Palestinian descent and two dancers from Palestinian company El Funoun. Waiting Forbidden is about a sense of displacement, fear and resistance—a performance about being Palestinian and being of Palestinian descent. About human beings connecting and struggling with their own relationship to oppression—a mental labyrinth of 60 years of violence in a place where nothing seems innocent anymore, and where time is moving forward. At least time moves forward... The performance is inspired by the stories of the dancers and the work of Mona Hatoum, a well-known visual artist of Palestinian descent. Home in her work is a mythical location: a place charged with loss and violence. Waiting Forbidden was performed in Amman, Ramallah and five cities in the Netherlands during Dancing on the Edge.
Review
Waiting Forbidden fired on all cylinders. With Dutch direction and choreography from Feri de Geus and Noortje Bijvoets, and collaboration with performers from Al Balad Theatre in Amman and El Funoun in Ramallah, it packed a political punch, laced with humour and galvanized by the rhythmic dubka pulse... Sitting, the dancers' hands slapped it out on the boards; laying down, their legs twitched in unison and for brief wonderful moments it exploded in full-blooded dance. An inconclusive finish on a dream-wish epilogue left the solutions in the air but a clear message that Palestine may be down but not out.
Maggie Foyer in Dance Europe Magazine, January 2010