Still life with Lily, Fan and Fried Eggplant
Premiere in April 2024 at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main.
Funded by Kulturamt Frankfurt, Hessische Theaterakademie und
Gesellschaft der Freunde internationales Theater Frankfurt.
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Still life with Lily, Fan and Fried Eggplant, serves as the second chapter in the ongoing exploration of mourning by the
"Un-formula" performance group, as part of their "mourning trilogy."
How does one convey ghost stories? The stories of unfulfilled promises entangled with alternative futures. Is it possible to
narrate invisibilities? This is a try of getting out of the orbit of time and leave everything as it is, and see, look, hear, touch, feel the chaos with all our senses; to see beyond the visible, to listen beyond the noise, to feel beyond the tangible. This is a call to witness the stage of pause, a necessity for the evocation of ghosts.
Created in collaboration with:
Jule Kriesel, Nastya Dzyuban, Omid Mashhad, Nazanin Bahrami, and Lucas
Guigonis.
Concept and Direction: Nazanin Bahrami
Dramaturgy: Omid Mashhadi
Performers: Nastya Dzyuban, Nazanin Bahrami, Jule Kriesel
Choreography: Nastya Dzyuban and Nazanin Bahrami
Sound Design: Jule Kriesel
Teaser: Mostafa Qahery
With the assistance of Lucas Guigonis for costume and lighting
""Still Life with Lily, Fan, and Fried Eggplant" is a performance piece that explores the intersection of personal grief and political upheaval.
It is a multimedia performance that incorporates elements of visual art, storytelling, and potentially dance or movement to convey the artist's experience of loss and its connection to broader social and political movements. it is a movement-based exploration of mourning practices. The performance probes the concept of a "grief dance, " examining whether grief can be choreographed and how "exhausted bodies, " burdened by grief, can move and express themselves within shared spaces. The group also investigates the physical and emotional manifestations of "exhaustion" within the context of mourning.
