Time out of Time
About
“Time out of Time: A Special Place” was a dance piece produced by Amman based dance company Studio 8 in collaboration with artist duet of French sound artist François Donato and French/Iranian visual artist Golnaz Behrouznia.
The in-progress result is an interdisciplinary live performance which was presented to the audience of Jordan on 25th of August, 2019 as part of IDEA – International Dance Encounter Amman festival.
“Let’s work together, to collaborate, to create side by side, loosening boundaries between artistic labels.”
— Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh (Director)
Since 2014, Studio 8, has been calling all artists of any discipline (visual, digital, coding, installation, film, photography, painting, art managers, musicians, event managers, students, producers, curators) to collaborate in favor of a more open and flexible view toward the art experience itself. We created a blog to document the journey. To know more about this project, click on the big B button below.
“Let’s work together, to collaborate, to create side by side, loosening boundaries between artistic labels.”
— Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh (Director)
Since 2014, Studio 8, has been calling all artists of any discipline (visual, digital, coding, installation, film, photography, painting, art managers, musicians, event managers, students, producers, curators) to collaborate in favor of a more open and flexible view toward the art experience itself. We created a blog to document the journey. To know more about this project, click on the big B button below.
Cast:
- Director, choreographer: Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh
- Assistant director: Xiaoman Ren
- Dance: Emran Alamareen, Daniel Issa, Nadeen Dabass, Kate Port, Ziad Hajir, Anas Nahleh, Oliveira Jara Visual Arts: Golnaz Behrouznia
- Sound designer: Francois Donato
- Photographer: Mohammad Emad, Xiaoman Ren, Miramar Moh’d
- Video-grapher: Mohammad Ali, Xiaoman Ren
- Video-editor: Xiaoman Ren
“Isn’t all art interdisciplinary?
Surely there are dancers who only dance but ever since the role of an artist was to be less crafty and more intellectual, artists have been exploring different media and wandering across disciplines – architecture, photography, film, science, fiction, technology.”
— Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh (Director)
A Production Residency
From 18 to 25 of July 2019, with the support of Al Mawreed Al-Thaqafi, Studio 8 organized a production residency bringing together an artist duet of French sound artist François Donato and French/Iranian visual artist Golnaz Behrouznia, and five performers based in Jordan, with the aim to create a project that is crossing borders of genres and disciplines: dance, performance, visual arts, performative arts, animation, projection, coding, etc.
A 5-day-residency was taken in Jordan between dance studio, hotel rooms and theatre by an interdisciplinary ensemble of Jordanian, French, Iranian artists, in the summer of 2019.
The artist ensemble came together sharing a vision to create a dance production that an interplay between a dynamic choreography and an audiovisual immersive environment is presented simultaneously.
“I have been dreaming to create a live performance that invites audiences to experience a space that lies in between reality and illusion, external and internal processes, time and space as well as mind and body.”
— Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh (Director)
“I have been dreaming to create a live performance that invites audiences to experience a space that lies in between reality and illusion, external and internal processes, time and space as well as mind and body.”
— Abd Al Hadi Abunahleh (Director)
The Inspiration
This dance production is inspired by the concept of Liminality, “a threshold”, “the ‘out-of-this-world’ quality” associated to liminality a sort of trance-like feeling.
Individuation can be seen as a “movement through liminal space and time”, from disorientation to integration.
As a result, a performance was created, as an attempt to bend minds and transporting them — if, only for a second — out of their comfortable realities, and into liminal/liminoid zones of possibility.
Featured in the Project
Golnaz Behrouznia
Francois Donato
Oliveira Jara
Ziad Hajir
Kate Port
Nadeen Dabass
Mohammad Emad
Studio 8
Osama El Mashini Theater
