I Can Still Hear Your Laughter
multi-disciplinary choreography by Yalda Younes (2023-open-ended)
I Can Still Hear Your Laughter is a multi-disciplinary choreography that began as a meditation on wilderness as a pillar of care and evolved into a reflection on the attributes of a home. Drawing from the artist’s personal and interpersonal relationships with the human, vegetal, and mineral environments that shaped her upbringing, it questions the tension between direct experience and hierarchical knowledge. Intimately weaving together memory, perception and imagination, it looks for answers in pathologized states _those manifestations of resistance against the fragmentation of thought, body and land.
image, choreography, text, zapateado, sound score Yalda Younes co-editing Rania Stephan field recording, camera assistance, buzuq Khyam Allami production Yalda Younes with the support of AFAC - Arab Funds for Culture and Ashkal Alwan research stages supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste #takecare program, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa research stipendium many thanks to the mountains of Chatine, Khyam Allami, Rania Younes, Samar Younes, Mohamad Gawad, Salma Shamel, Haig Aivazian, Matthieu Banvillet, Jawad Chaaban and One Hertz Studio
image, choreography, text, zapateado, sound score Yalda Younes co-editing Rania Stephan field recording, camera assistance, buzuq Khyam Allami production Yalda Younes with the support of AFAC - Arab Funds for Culture and Ashkal Alwan research stages supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste #takecare program, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa research stipendium many thanks to the mountains of Chatine, Khyam Allami, Rania Younes, Samar Younes, Mohamad Gawad, Salma Shamel, Haig Aivazian, Matthieu Banvillet, Jawad Chaaban and One Hertz Studio