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3rd Annual “Aat Festival” Celebrating International Women's Day
Tuesday 6th & Wednesday 7th, March
Al-Balad Theatre*, 8 PM
Free Entrance
The Vanishing Horizon
Idle Motion Group, UK
This stunning piece of devised physical theatre uses charming and inventive staging created from battered suitcases, puppets, maps and paper airplanes to captivate its audience. In it they give wings to the female pioneers of aviation and the journeys they took, exploring the freedom they found in flight.
*The Performance on Wednesday 7 March will be followed by an open discussion with the artists, moderated by Samar Dudin.
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Thursday 8, Friday 9 & Saturday 10 March
Al-Balad Theatre*, 8 PM
Ticket price 3 JD
There is a Closet in Every House
Performed by Shereen Zoumot, Reham Issac, Samira El-Asir, Rafic Nasereddin, directed by Lina Abiad, Lebanon
Four actors, a Director, an Assistant director and Stage Manager from Jordan, Palestine, and Lebanon come together in a series of impassioned improvisations about what it means to be young and alive in the city today. In the process, they unleash a flurry of everyday urban language but the results are not at all ordinary...
*The Performances on all three dates will be followed by an open discussion with the director and artists
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Sunday 11 & Monday 12 March
Showcases of Works in Progress
Al-Balad Theatre, 8 PM
Ticket price 1 - 2 JD
›Ì(male)
Directed and performed by Alaa Samman, Jordan
Visuals: Rafic Nasereddin. Puppeteer and make-up: Amer Atta
A Solo contemporary dance piece incorporating movement and video. art. ›Ì(male) explores the topic of gender and gender identity and its connection to sexual Identity; and the implications of social norms on the behavior of a human being.
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Where do we go from here...
Shaymaa Shoukry, Egypt & Alaa' Samman, Jordan
An experimental dance performance developed during a 10-day residency in Amman within the ‘Aat Festival’.
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Time Cycles on a Landscape of a Body
Shaymaa Shoukry, Egypt
Choreography & Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
Music: Alexander Mangel
Light design: Saad Samir
Graphic Animation: Pouyan karbor
Video: Dalia Abd El Aziz and Shaymaa Shoukry
Special Thanks to: Sedika Abou Seda, Sherif Kamel, Laurence Rondoni, and SEE Foundation
This solo piece created in 2008 remains an ongoing quest to rediscover the quality of our verticality and presence in the context of life today. A research process on our relationship to time - a man-made measuring unit that constantly dictates us.
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Shifts
Performed by Nisreen Najjar, Palestine
Directed by Fadi Skeiker, Syria/Jordan
The performance is the result of an intensive workshop where Fadi and Nissreen worked on finding a performative outcome for issues of belonging, home, nationhood, womanhood, and change.
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Tuesday 13 March
Al-Balad Theatre, 8 PM
Ticket price 3 - 5 JD
In the Lost and Found: La Valise Rouge
Lana Nasser, Jordan
"I was not always a woman, an Arab, or a Muslim, these things only came with time, at first I thought I was just ... Insan: human." 'In the Lost and Found' premiered at the 2011 ‘Aat festival’ (in Arabic and English), after which it toured in New York, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The play was recently awarded the 2011 Etel Adnan Award for Arab Women Playwrights. This single show represents a new experiment: it incorporates the French language into the script, this enriching the piece or simply complicating it.
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6 - 13 March
New Mirrors
A photo-installation by Kristof Persyn, Belgium
The photographic project "New Mirrors" portrays people in Amman's society who liberate themselves from stereotypes, social restrictions and identity-labels. Theatre-maker & photographer Kristof Persyn will create these images of 'revelation' during the festival-days and the result will be shown in an installation that runs through the festival duration.
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