Almanac Dance Circus Theatre (USA) / NÜT Dance Company (Egypt) ─ FIX Me!
May 18, 2024. | 20:00
Zagreb Dance Center, Ilica 10
BUY TICKET | 10 € (75,35 kn) / 8 € (60.28 kn)
*Discount for students, pensioners and members of dance associations can be obtained at the theatre box office.
FIX me! is a full length Contemporary Acro/Dance production by Ben Grinberg & Hazem Header. An American Jewish Acrobat, An Egyptian Muslim Dancer and Choreographers, finding, loving and using each other. FIX me! Is a dance theater piece that explores queer male impulses across disparate cultural contexts and sheds light on the preciousness of intimacy, free expressions and relationships. FIX me! was originally created as a 20 minute duet that was performed only once in Cairo, Egypt during the 5th edition of Breaking Walls Festival. Despite being queer in Egypt is not illegal, but the local authorities has put lots of restrictions and censorship laws in order to control what is been shown to the public, especially when it comes to art, everything has to be done according to The Egyptian authorities’ standard which makes queer art in Egypt a rare thing to witness.
Creation and Choreography: Ben Gringberg & Hazem Header | Music Designer and Composer: Claudio Curciotti (Italy) | Costume Designer: Nermine Said (Egypt)
Performance length: 65 minutes.
Hazem Header is an Egyptian contemporary dancer and choreographer. With a BA of Physical education, studies of Personal training, Biomechanics and Kinesiology and a long career as a personal trainer and volleyball coach, Hazem studied dance at the governmental center “Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC)” at Cairo Opera House. There he gained experience in choreography. In 2013 Hazem founded NÜT Dance Company’ (NDC). With NDC, Hazem has produced over 100 cultural events and performances since 2013 to this date that have been presented in Egypt, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Italy, Rwanda, Tunisia and Sri Lanka. From 2018 till 2020; he conducted lessons of Theater and Contemporary Dance at Cairo University’s creative center. In 2017 Hazem founded “Breaking Walls Festival” to be the first international festival for site specific performances in Cairo. In 2021 Hazem created “Breaking Walls Dance Film Festival” to be the first festival of Dance Films in Egypt and in the region.
Ben Grinberg (he/they) is a Philadelphia-based performing artist, director, clown and educator working at the intersection of contemporary circus and ensemble dance theatre. His work embraces the earnest awkwardness of connection and the mess of existing in a world of collapsing structures. He is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training (now the Pig Iron UArts MFA, where he is also on Faculty). Grinberg is co-founder, and longtime Artistic Director of Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, an award-winning and internationally touring physical performance ensemble, and from 2017-2021 was a founding core faculty member at Circadium, the nation’s first certificate granting program in contemporary circus performance. With Almanac, they won a 2020 Rocky Award, a 2017 Suraya Award, and a 2019 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Movement/Choreography for xoxo moongirl, which they also directed.
