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SHEELA
Fabrice Mazliah

Frankfurt LAB – Halle 1

Tue. 7.11. I 7 pm (world premiere)
Fri. 8.11. I 7 pm, followed by Meet the Artist
Sat. 9.11. I 7 pm, Warm-up 6:30 pm
Duration: 55 min.
Language: songs in different languages
Tickets: 25€/ reduced 12€

Teaser (via Vimeo)

SHEELA is an adaptation of a piece that was created in 2021 for Opéra de Lyon ballet company. Choreographer Fabrice Mazliah creates a piece with six female performers that focusses entirely on their voices, their joint presence and the potential community that they unleash. Inspired by historical working practices in which physical labour was accompanied by singing, SHEELA expands on an improvisation exercise in which the dancers become aware of their sheer presence. They reveal themselves to and learn from each other by sharing their voices and their songs, their individual movements and heritages within the group.

SHEELA enables an echo of these traces of movement to be heard and asks: Who or what is shown to the audience in an interflowing corpus that is read as female, in which individuals come together in a greater whole and return the gaze that is focussed on their bodies? 

Concept, stage, costume: Fabrice Mazliah
Choreography: Fabrice Mazliah in collaboration with the dancers
Dance and singing: Marie Albert, Katja Cheraneva, Viktorija Ilioska, Aoife McAtamney, Patscharaporn Distakul, Ophelia Young
Fabrice Mazliah: concept, choreography, stage, costumes
Voice coach and outside eye: Dalila Khatir
Dramaturgical accompaniment: Anne Kersting
Composition and sound effects: Johannes Helberger
Lighting design and technical direction: Matthias Rieker
Production: Johanna Milz
Co-production: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Work of Act is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt

Photo: Agathe Poupeney