TURN ON

Dance Performance, 60'

2024

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In TURN ON, Soraya Leila Emery explores female pleasure from a feminist perspective. Through movement, narratives around female sexuality, body autonomy and empowerment are re-imagined.

The three performers move through the space both alone and together, creating captivating tableaux vivants with their movements and gazes: intertwined and sliding over each other, their bodies vibrate, resist and soften in an obsessive search for endless repetition, leading to exhaustion and vibrating stillness.

A game of constantly changing, ambivalent power relations.
An act of re-appropriation of their bodies.
A fight for their rights to pleasure.

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EXPOSURE

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Tanzplan Ost Premiere, Tanzhaus Zürich (2024)

Tanzplan Ost Tour: Phönix Theater Steckborn (2024), Bachturnhalle Schaffhausen (2024)

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CREDITS

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Concept, Artistic Direction, Choreography: Soraya Leila Emery
Co-Choreography, Performance: Soraya Leila Emery / Eman Hussein, Donya Speaks, Lena Sophia Bagutti Khennouf
Sound design: Sinan Moses
Costume & stage design: Moni Wespi
Dramaturgy: Lyn Bentschik
Light design: Patrik Rimann
Mentorship: Ulduz Ahmadzadeh

Photos: Gregory Batardon

Dramaturgical support TanzPlan Ost: Mona De Weerdt, Simone Truong
Production management TanzPlan Ost: Romeo Oliveras, Mona De Weerdt, Miriam Haltiner

Production: Hot Stuff
Coproduction: TanzPlanOst

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Sponsors:
Stadt Zürich Kultur
Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich
Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Landis & Gyr Stiftung
E. Fritz und Yvonne Hoffmann-Stiftung
Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS
Migros Kulturprozent