“It is better to follow the dark of the nightthan to run after one’s life” you said,to “follow the dark” can beuncanny and unsettling,for it resists the clarity of sightforcing me to walk through the unknownwith no certainty.
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Enad Marouf: And Now It Is Night
Enad Marouf: And Now It Is Night
Enad Marouf: And Now It Is Night
In his works, Enad Marouf explores the fragmentary nature of memory, loss, and desire—their temporality and how they are embodied through poetry, gesture, and choreography. His group work And Now It is Night unfolds as a cruising dance between strangers—a dance of desire, but also of uncertainty and the unknown, a condition we all might endure.
The emergence and disappearance of movement, language, and sound, along with their fragmented interplay, invite the audience into a nonlinear story. Set within an architectural installation reminiscent of the old city of Damascus at night, the work becomes an unfolding meditation on grief, desire, memory, and uncertainty.
After the video installation Time of the Angel (2022) and the performances In My Hand a Word (2022) and HUNDSTAGE (2024), the Syrian-German performance and video artist Enad Marouf, winner of the Will Grohmann Prize 2023, returns to Sophiensæle with his work from K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg.
Duration: 1 hour
(Arabic, with German and English subtitles)
Additional information
Concept, choreography, text: Enad MaroufPerformance: Arad Inbar, Jao Moon, Adam Russell-Jones, Samuel PereiraInstallation: Enad MaroufConstruction supervision, production: Jascha KretschmannLighting: Jacqueline SobiszewskiMusic: Bell TowersCostumes: Grzegorz MatlagVoice-over: Majdolen ShalghinVoice: Majdolen ShalghinProduction management: Florian Greß
A production by Enad Marouf, in co-production with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR. The guest performance takes place as part of Making Life in the Ruins, a festival by Sophiensæle, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
A production by Enad Marouf, in co-production with K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR. The guest performance takes place as part of Making Life in the Ruins, a festival by Sophiensæle, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Dates
May 2025
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