Dominique Tegho: the intimacy of collision – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin

Dominique Tegho:
the intimacy of collision

A person stands sideways in front of a white curtain with their arms spread wide, creating a large shadow behind them. They wear a sleeveless olive-green top and dark trousers. The body forms a calm, expressive pose.
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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 imaginings. 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 play Salome from 1893. the intimacy of collision examines how friction, collision and encounter can function as strategies for interrogating the orientalism that has shaped perception of bodies across more than a century of Western imagination.

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If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.

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Concept, choreography: Dominique Tegho
Performance, choreography: Anthony Nakhlé, Hassandra, Dominique Tegho
Sound design: Basel Naouri
Light design: Marco Ciceri
Video artist: Cynthia el-Hasbani
Costumes, head piece : Mathilda Rejouan - Mounia Studios
Drag outfit: Naomi Tarazi
Dramaturgical support: Manolis Tsipos, Polina Fenko, Nima Séne
Outside eye: Charlie Prince
Production management: Tammo Walter
Dabke coaching: Nancy Nasreddine
Voice coaching: Wafaa Saied
Hair & Makeup: Hassandra

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. The 35th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and HZT Berlin. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Rausgegangen, Siegessäule, taz.

Dominique Tegho is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer from Lebanon. She holds an MA in Choreography from HZT Berlin and is a founding member of WILD LISTENING, a dance collective dedicated to instant composition. Dominique collaborates with a wide range of artists and develops her own choreographic works. She has performed at Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne for the 25 Years of Tanznacht festival and in numerous Berlin venues, including HKW, TATWERK, ACUD, and Uferstudios. Her artistic practice has been supported through residencies across Europe and Beirut. Alongside her performance work, Dominique teaches choreographic workshops between Berlin and Beirut. Dominique is a grantee of Wijhat 2025 Round 3 by Culture Resource.

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