Art stations fundation - by Grażyna Kulczyk

Hooman Sharifi is one of Norway’s best-known and most provocative choreographers. Together with his Impure Company, he’s made political dance his trademark. Sharifi’s latest piece is no exception, but this time he appeals to our conscience rather than inciting us to action. Sharifi distils states of violence, grief, anger and desperation to their most basic physical components and use them to construct new expressions and actions. It is an emphatically physical perfor- mance that has been well fuelled from various written sources: Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Roland Barthes and Peter Handke. A few extracts from the writings are projected during the performance: the audience is given plenty of time to read them and possibly link them to the visual elements. The “act of reading” is an intrinsic component of the process the performers and audience experience together. Hannah Arendt’s “On Violence” is the thread that runs through this political piece.