Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence

Performance
Sep 21-23, 2017

Cities are shaped by the stories and memories people have of them. They stick in the mind only as a melding of the lived, the imagined, the forgotten, and the desired. The only thing that remains are the stories. Starting from that notion, Mohammad Al Attar has interviewed inhabitants of the city of Aleppo, asking them about a place dear to them. The result of this undertaking, infused by the desire not to yield to a language of loss, is a set of intimate one-on-one performances comprised of tales and testimonies from Aleppo, in order to safeguard the connections to these places.

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• 100 Years of Now
• Why Are We Here Now?
• 2017

• Tags:
• Arab Spring
• memory
• Exile
• Storytelling
• Syria
• Performance