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ABGESAGT: AWOL

In her new production AWOL (Absent Without Leave), Malika Fankha explores the synergies between humans and nature’s mystical creatures. Although elves, trolls and other hybrid forms of life may resemble the human shape, they manage to evade our notion of normativity. Due to their queer and volatile essence, they challenge our thinking in stereotypes and dualities and embody the concept of identity as a malleable force. The work questions the hierarchy of corporealities in the physical, spiritual and virtual realms and advocates new ways of coexistence and kindred among species.

In Awolonia, a place better than reality, residents are mercurially utopian. They keep secrets, shift shapes, change names, and appear in myriad disguises. They uncover and liberate their desires and torments, transgress boundaries, they slip into and out of dangerous and vulnerable places in an ongoing craving for connection, haunting the liminal spaces between imagined and artificially constructed borders.

The first video of the series, KARMA, will be presented in the course of imagetanz 2021.
The other video ODE will be published on April 30th.

  • Bühne 1
    Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
    8037 Zürich
  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • From 12 years

  • English

  • Solidarity: CHF 35
  • Regular: CHF 25
  • Budget: CHF 15

Artistic direction, performance Malika Fankha
Objects Ana Rajcevic
Costume Goran Bugaric
Makeup Valerie Reding and Ronaldo Cosmo Cleverson
Lights Marek Lamprecht and David Baumgartner
Sound Dark Euphoria feat. Mirza Kebo
Sound assistance Andrej Barla
Video Timotheus Tomicek and Jannik Schleicher
Dramaturgical advice Anna Mendelssohn
Outside eye Denice Bourbon
Choreographic assistance Asher O'Gorman
Production mollusca productions
Dramaturgical production advice Tanzhaus Zürich: Marc Streit

Coproduction FANKS, Tanzhaus Zürich, brut Wien

Residency partners SoArt Millstättersee (AT), Kunstencentrum BUDA Kortrijk (BE), Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), Huggy Bears (AT), The Artists Are Present at Brunnenpassage Wien (AT)

Supported by City of Zurich Culture, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna MA 7, BMKOES, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Embassy of Switzerland in Austria, Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels (initiated by IG Freie Theater, supported by BMEIA)

Photo © TimTom