Under the Flesh

How does the body respond when faced with a death threat? What innate tools does it invent to survive?

Under the Flesh  is a gripping contemporary theatre-dance performance that questions how a body in war can not only react, but provocatively resist and find freedom through art.

After outliving four consecutive wars, choreographer and performer Bassam Abou Diab continues to choose to dance, again and again, creating this searing work replete with dark humour, where he lets his body tell its story of endurance and survival. Under the Flesh presents his movement as language, his dance sequences—abiding by its rules and techniques—defying war machines. If war foists a raw emotional landscape of fear, panic and desperation on the body, then the body in motion will confront it with poetic resistance.

Production Credits

Choreographer and Performer – Bassam Abou Diab

Musician – Ali Hout

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