{"id":27842,"date":"2024-05-22T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/while-in-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:04:53","slug":"while-in-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metropolis.dk\/en\/while-in-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"WHILE IN BATTLE I\u2019M FREE, NEVER FREE TO REST by Cullberg & Hooman Sharifi"},"content":{"rendered":"
DATE: 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 June at 19h30
\nPLACE: Bl\u00e5g\u00e5rds Plads, Cph. N
\nWHAT: Dance
\nFOR FREE – reserve a seat (limited) OBS: <\/strong>Even if the seating tickets are sold out, the performance remains accessible for viewing.<\/h6>\nReserve free seat<\/a>\n
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20 dancing bodies occupy a place in the city<\/strong><\/h5>\n

While in battle I’m free, never free to rest is a rare life-affirming flow of collective power. It is unpredictable and magical when 10 street dancers meet 10 dancers from the renowned Swedish company Cullberg on one of the city’s most diverse squares.<\/p>\n

The Iranian-born choreographer Hooman Sharifi has created a very special meeting between dancers – between people – with very different backgrounds. They each speak their own (body) language, each have their own ethnicity, nationality, culture, but share the Earth.<\/p>\n

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The title of the performance is a quote from civil rights activist James Baldwin. While in battle I’m free, never free to rest. Is life a struggle for life or death? Or a powerful dance party, if only we set our bodies free?<\/p>\n

For the uncompromising choreographer Sharifi, art is always political. In a time full of conflict, when groupings are fighting and going to war, he sets out with a masterpiece about the collective’s power of creating change. About how out of our differences new opportunities arise if we make room. About how we all fight to be free in the world. Together, but with individual voices.<\/p>\n

The dancers swirl around each other in intense, sweat-dripping choreography, while we as the audience are drawn into their universe. We surround the dancers as the alluring soundtrack envelops us. Neda Sanai has created her own special music by sampling a unique tapestry of Iranian folk music.<\/p>\n

20 bodies in constant motion create a nomadic and human ritual that insists that we are part of the same infinite body and that we set its pulse free.<\/p>\n

Duration<\/strong>: 1h 30min.
\nAge:<\/strong> For all<\/p>\n

Interview with choreographer Hooman Sharifi<\/strong><\/p>\n