Performance
WHEN
November 12, 2020
8 PM
WHERE
Online
Part of "Off the Stage Events"
WHO
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
Open to the Public
Filmed in The Black Box in February 2018 at its world premiere. #JeSuis brings the lens upon a group of dancers whose place in the world is presented by the media as unwanted neighbors, countries where human catastrophes are a daily given. Aakash Odedra developed #JeSuis with a group of Turkish dancers he met in Istanbul. It is inspired by their collective responses to misinterpretations of their motherland by the media. Wrapped up in wider issues of displacement, refuge, and instability, both politically and geographically, it portrays their frustrations of life in a homeland that doesn’t know the meaning of “home” anymore. A place where people continually struggle for a sense of peace. Where freedoms and choices are becoming luxuries. Where the only hope left is to remain safe.
Live Q&A
The streamed performance will be followed by a live Q&A. Aakash Odedra and members of the company discuss the process and creation of the work. The panel will also answer questions posted by the audience.
The development of #JeSuis was the subject of an NYUAD J-Term class, How Movement Makes Meaning, taught by Professor Debra Levine, leading to its world premiere.
Revisiting the Middle East premiere of this work, presented during The Arts Center’s first season in February 2016, followed by a live Q&A.
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