Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Unfortunately, the on site performances have to be cancelled. Only the online event will take place on 25.05.
The jungle is a new and infinite territory, where the possible has another meaning, or perhaps none. From which side can we enter the jungle, to taste this dream? Premiering at the festival, Mowgli is the new creation of Iranian artist Sorour Darabi. The starting point of their work is the very title, taken from a recent song from French-rap-duo PNL, where the reference to the jungle denounces the still-used projection of wildness onto the body of young citizens with translocal background. And yet the image of the jungle also invites to be re-appropriated from the inside: the possibility of inventing a different law, opposed to the one of the city. Set in the obscurity of a fictional night, each appearance in Mowgli is a wild experience: choreography, poetry, storytelling, The Jungle Book, the lyrics of Iranian singer Googoosh and the ones of PNL. Through them, Sorour Darabi constructs a collection – or almost an album – of lived and fantasized stories, crossing the themes of chosen family, melancholy and urban legends. Step by step, Sorour Darabi transforms the stage into a jungle, and the jungle into a playground for the self. Becoming wild is a political project.
As a part of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts
With the support of the Goethe-Institut Brüssel and Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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