How can we continue to look when images saturate our vision to the point of exhaustion? How can we make our voices heard when the world seems to have lost the ability to listen? In Le Titre est en Arabe (The Title is in Arabic), Danya Hammoud chooses to remove the image as a political and poetic stance. Removing the image, not to avert the gaze, but to bring listening to a blind spot, where the imagination and the body take over. At the heart of this performance is the text Les détails by Ghayath Al-Madhoun, a Palestinian poet born in Damascus in the Yarmouk refugee camp. His writing, sober and relentless, describes injustice, violence and death bluntly, focusing on the physical experience of the body. Contrary to a world saturated with stories and images, Danya Hammoud suspends the visible to bring about another regime of attention. Proposing sounds without mediation allows a relegated voice to emerge and affirms listening as a collective practice of resistance.
Danya Hammoud
Danya Hammoud is a Lebanese choreographer and dancer. After earning a degree in theater from the Beirut Academy of Fine Arts, she went on to complete the Essais training program at the CNDC (National Center for Contemporary Dance) in Angers. Her work explores the relationship between movement and language, as well as the political and social contexts that shape the body. Now based in Occitanie, she develops a practice at the intersection of dance, film, and writing.