VICE VERSA

LAVA-Dansproduktion

True stories. Brutal truths. Reflective, touching and honest about how war impacts children`s lives.

Vice Versa is a captivating documentary performance about survival, loss, conflict, destruction and how to hold a seed of hope, optimism and dignity alive.

Vice Versa is a multi-media performance, which is compelling in its way that it speaks about some of the most difficult things we can speak about: the impact of war on the individual and more specific on the lives and experiences of children.

We believe that both dance and visual art have the potential to speak about the world we live in a poetic and imaginative way without becoming too literally. To create a space for our audiences to reflect upon the offer we make.

Duration ca. 60 min (no interval)

Created and performed by Benno Voorham (Sweden/Netherlands) and Abdalla Omari (Syria/Belgium) Music Nika Pasuri (Georgia) Produced by LAVA-Dansproduktion

Supported by Swedish Arts Council, Konstnärsnämnden (the Swedish Arts Grants Committee), Vitlycke Centre for Performing Arts, Inkonst Malmö, Teater Sláva.

Abdalla Omari is a Syrian painter, performing artist and filmmaker currently living in Brussels. Most recently he has created The Vulnerability Series, depicting world leaders in highly vulnerable states, breaking their image of ultimate power.

Benno Voorham is a Dutch dance artist living in Sweden since 1995. In recent years he has created productions with different groups of marginalised children: HOME with social orphans in Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus and Waiting in the Margins with internal refugees in Georgia.

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