Two Performances by choreographer Raha Behnam and Artist Neda Zahraie

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About This Show

Emruz Festival presents a night of multimedia performances including Raha Behnam’s dance piece called “Void in Vignettes” and 

Neda Zahraie’s Hybric poetry titled, “Anamnése”

Hybrid poetry is an experimental approach to poetry–a mix of old and new, a respect for form, and an enthusiastic break from all preconceived notions and normative barriers in literature and art. Anamnése is the process of remembering and recalling, similar to a patient's account of medical history as told to a doctor. Herewith poetry, images, sound, and movement the artist goes back in time to childhood at her grandmother's garden in Tehran to piece together the story of women's lives, parallel and overlapping life stories that are constructed of collectively suppressed and distorted memories and guarded myths. 
The experience of otherness for the immigrant, the "other" that is defined by all that she is not–especially for an Iranian woman, double burdened by both racism and sexism, this human collision with not belonging to the present can by necessity fuse the body to a long gone past. Nostalgia can take hold and can become a permanent part of the mind, a feature of the body. Unknowingly memories can be turned into a shrine, and the devotion to such built convictions of what is no longer can become the basis for the mind and body's undoing. Fortunately, for artist and audience alike, through the process of artistic investigation, the hybrid poetics of Anamnése, the cure can be reached.
Void in Vignettes
by Raha Behnam

Void in Vignettes explores memory, loss, grief and the empty spaces left in the wake of immigration and diasporic identity. Thank you to my sister and to those who have supported us along the way, throughout the years. 

Show Details

Dates: One Night Only: May 3, 2022

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