Mayar Alexani

This interactive movement performance between the director Mayar Alexan and choreographer Hoor Malas is a study of the landscape of the human brain and its decay due to Alzheimers. It explores the range of information with which a person defines oneself and those around them. What characters do they play in their life and how does this world fall apart? The project is a contemplation on the idea of home and the longing an Alzheimer’s patient has for their first home, and the relationship between this and the memory of Damascus and its connection with its inhabitants.

This project is a performance combined with an audio-visual installation on the relation of the human being and body with the sea, placed within a sensory and historic framework. Performers will invite the audience to embark on a quest for lightness. The performance alludes to the experiences and images of migrants crossing the sea as a live reality and raises the question: “What happens if we were to link the notion of searching for a secure place to live in with the myth of Atlantis, the lost city in the sea?”