Noha Ramadan - Paratactical

Where are we looking? What else is happening? Paratactical is a dance work dealing with transformation, fantasy, and augmented space. Using techniques of cinematic production, the continuous motion of human and non-human bodies is captured and projected live, complicating the attention of the viewer and producing changing relations between the actual and the virtual. The world is constantly turning.

I am attracted to situations of complex spatiality and directionality and their production through theatrical means. Previously, I’ve explored this through dance and live sound processing. Over the last two years I have begun working much more visually. I have engaged practices of touch, movement, and live image production as modes of thinking about orientations, proximity, and collective subjectivity.

Next to this I have been exploring different structures of writing, developing fictional texts and choreographic scripts which affirm holes, gaps, transformation (and the entrance of uncanny others). This project includes the publication Cassini & Other Minor Gods, a collection of semi-fictions, drawings and quotes which run alongside the performance. It is available in the kitchen during the presentations.

Carribean thinkers for a new Europe is a series of encounters conjured by Cecilia Lisa Eliceche.

Cecilia is fascinated by the endless potential of the body and movement and conceives dance as a site to experiment and rethink notions of democracy, community and the political, as well as challenging colonialism.

Her current focus is experimenting with forms of conjuring encounters. In the past two years she has been devoted to prof. Nadia Ellis and artist Leandro Nerefuh.