TURN ON-A Research On Pleasure is a dance piece exploring female pleasure by merging contemporary dance and grappling techniques by two performers from the MENA regions (Morocco, Egypt).

The three-chapter choreographic score is a game of ever-changing and ambivalent power dynamics, submission and dominance, a fight for their rights to pleasure. The sequences repeat themselves, in light or in darkness, giving a sensory perceptual experience of the sensual friction of their movements. The score, gliding on the floor, deconstructs and abstracts components of grappling techniques, with taping for safety, takedowns, pins, hooks and locks to endless repetition and exhaustion.

Concept, Choreography, PERFORMANCE: Soraya Leila
Co-Choreography, Performance:Eman Hussein
Sound design: Sinan Moses
light design: ueli kappler
Mentorship: marisa godoy, stephan stock
Production Management TanzPlan ost: Romeo Oliveras
Dramaturgical Advice TanzPlan Ost: Mona De Weerdt
SUPPORT: TanzPlanOst

SHOWS:
19-20 JANUARY 2024, FABRIKTHEATER INKUBATOR Zürich
1st of March 2024, Rathaus Für Kultur Lichtensteig
14th of June 2024, Bruecki235 x Kulturmarkt Zürich

Duration: 15 minutes


video: sinan moses
photography credits:
christian glaus, Michael meili,sinan moses