Mille et Une Nuits

Sorour Darabi: Mille et Une Nuits

Fri 08. & Sat 09.11., 19.30h, Performance/Music, Austrian Premiere

Paris-based Iranian choreographer Sorour Darabi presents his most ambitious project to date, the experimental opera "Mille et Une Nuits", with an ensemble of eight musicians and performers. Darabi focuses on the expressiveness of fragility and the emotional texture of the trans* voice through music. The performance approaches the fascinating stories from "One Thousand and One Nights" through bodies, voices and perspectives that have been pushed to the margins by ancient legends. In the literary classic, Scheherazade delays the hour of her death by inventing new stories each night. Narration becomes a matter of survival and resistance. In the original work, however, the figure of Scheherazade is reduced to a narrative tool, her subjectivity and desire remain in the shadows of the stories told. Sorour Darabi draws the audience in a sensuous pull through a long, auspicious night in which Scheherazade’s being can finally self-actualise – as a queer myth, far removed from the constraints of a heteronormative world.