As the sun was setting in Alexandria today, we are happy to inform you about the interactive multidisciplinary live performance “Amanah Ya Bahr”, the second lab in the current season of THE SUN SETS EIGHT TIMES A DAY. This performance investigates the different narratives of climate change and its effects on the city of Alexandria. Abdalla Daif and fellow performers explore role and responsibility that high carbon emission countries’ have,  towards cities that are facing the danger of disappearing.

In January, February and March analogue, in-situ performance formats will be staged in all the SUN-countries (2022 including Ukraine). In these the local artists debate the questions towards a possible global social contract with their audiences. Following each performance there will be a multimedia documentation available here. For this, all audience members answer the same question, which is also available for all of you in our questionnaire here. In April there will be a Live-Online Performance, in which all the answers and the results of the nine performances will presented and treated creatively.

Credit:

Dramaturgy and Direction: Abdalla Daif

Text: Asmaa Yassen and Salma Emara

Performer: Nesma Abdel Aziz

Music: Ahmed Saleh

Visuals: Emad Mabrouk

Masks Design: Aliaa El Gready

Producer: Abdalla Daif

Executive Producer: Ossama El Hawary

Documentation: Kirllos Yousif

Workshop collaborator: Perform Project

This project was developed as part of “dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions” of the Federal Cultural Foundation, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) in the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.