Premiere 17+18.01.2026 at Tanztage Festival - Sophiensæle Berlin

5.12.25 ATELIER NO.71 - PACT Zollverein

04.2025 Telescope Beirut, a project by Shift

04.2025 in residency at SÍM residency, Iceland

12.2024 in residency at DIORAMA, Berlin

02.2024 In residency at AUSLAND, Berlin

Choreography: Dominique Tegho | Performance, choreography: Anthony Nakhlé, Hassandra, Dominique Tegho | Sound design: Basel Naouri | Light Design: Marco Ciceri | Costumes & Head piece : Mathilda Rejouan - Mounia Studios | Drag Outfit: Naomi Tarazi | Dramaturgical support: Manolis Tsipos, Polina Fenko, Nima Séne | Outside eye: Charlie Khalil Prince | Production Management: Tammo Walter | Dabke coaching: Nancy Nasreddine | Voice coaching: Wafaa Saied

A production by Dominique Tegho in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by Culture Resource Wijhat program; Goethe-Institut Research Residency Abroad; AIR Burgenland; SHIFT – a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union (Maqamat Omar Rajeh, Albania dance meeting festival and Fabbrica Europa); DIORAMA Berlin; Culture Moves Europe; Ausland Berlin.

With the kind support of Theaterhaus Berlin and KUTE Studio e.V.

the intimacy of collision engages with Orientalist aesthetics of representation. Focusing on form and rhythm, the work deconstructs “Middle Eastern” folk dances bringing them into conversation with contemporary movement vocabularies. In doing so, the piece shapes a dancing body that unsettles and disrupts orientalist imaginaries. Three performers draw from the rhythmic structures of Dabke and the cyclical loops of Baladi, creating a dance that oscillates between anger and celebration.  

The project turns toward the many iterations of the Dance of the Seven Veils, an orientalist spectacle first imagined in Oscar Wilde’s 1893 play Salome. the intimacy of collision examines how friction, collision, and encounter can function as strategies for interrogating the orientalism that has shaped perception of the bodies across more than a century of Western imagination.

Photo: Joana Lucas