Ouroboros
When:
Sunday, Mar 23, 2025 7:00p -
8:30p
Sunday, Mar 23, 2025 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
The Dance Complex
536 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Admission:
$25
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Shows, Sports & Active Life
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ouroboros-by-nejla-yatkin-tickets-1149550168499?aff=oddtdtcreator
Ouroboros by Nejla Yatkin is an evening length interactive theatrical solo dance presented in the round. The dance piece resurrects and centers the ancient healing symbol of Ouroboros through personal story telling including multiple languages English, German, Turkish and ASL, dance (contemporary and Middle Eastern dance), original composition by Shamou, song (cabaret style, sung live by Nejla), dramaturg Joanna Furnans, costume by Katrin Schnabl, lighting designer Giau Truong, set designer Delena Bradley, sound designer Sathapat Sangsuwan, deaf artist Susan Elizabeth Rangel.
From the moment the audience enters the space which is set up like a nomadic tent, they are greeted with rosewater and Turkish delights and taken through a journey to feel the life-affirming power of the ancient ritual of a gathering circle to dance, sing and tell stories. The solo dance takes the audience on a journey of memory, place, our current paradoxes and the cyclical and entrapping nature of time and culture.
The dance theatre piece is also about the lost history and continued relevance of embodying nature in the form of the snake dance, about embodied feminine wisdoms past and present, and about our relationship to dance and language. At the end of the evening the audience is invited to join in a dance “after party”.
Ouroboros is supported by numerous organizations. For further information, click here.
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