Concept: Medhat Aldaabal
Choreography director: Medhat Aldaabal, Davide Camplani
Light: Martin Hauk
Costume: Carina Kastler
Dance, Choreography: Medhat Aldaabal, Moufak Aldoabl, Firas Almassre, Fadi Waked, Nima Thiem (Kind)
Music: Ali Hasan (Percussion)
Technical Director: Giorgio de Santis

One clings to a wish that the mind may have already written off. This often hurts or makes one think that one is going crazy. Then again it makes the heart jump. Constantly again, the contradiction of opposing ideas stirs one up. The choreography by Medhat Aldaabal and Davide Camplani uses the means of contemporary dance to describe this arduous state. Its name is “Amal” (Arabic: Hope). In the form of a little boy, he climbs on the shoulders of the four men, does not allow them to lie on the floor, repeatedly causes them to stir up, with gentle rigour.

»Seconds pass, let you lose your job
Seconds pass, let you lose the people you love
Seconds pass, and you see your friends, dead
seconds pass, all the colors fade to black, all the food loses
taste
Seconds pass that make you think there is no humanity, no
justice
Seconds pass in which you wish you could die and your pain will end.
Yet even after all the terrible things we have been through, we feel hope for life.
That hope grows, then we find ourselves, running away from our memories, somewhere to come back and build our dreams, the dreams that were dreamed by many people who had their dreams taken away…
We are here now…We are human.
We have the right to live, to dream!«
(Medhat Aldaabal)

2016 initiated by Medhat Aldaabal with Davide Camplani as a result of a dance workshop within the framework of the LISTEN platform of Sasha Waltz & Guests.A production of Sasha Waltz & Guests in the program “Education & Community”.

Made in Radialsystem. The performance is supported by the Fellowship “Weltopen Berlin” of the Senate Administration for Culture & Europe and the residency program “Artists at risk” of the Allianz Kulturstiftung.Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by the Berlin Senate Administration for Culture & Europe and the Capital Culture Fund.