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SUMMARY:Mortal Heroes in Chania
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1587042757740{padding-bottom: 7% !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nMortal Heroes on Tour\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\nSita Ostheimer’s Mortal Heroes premiered as part of ŻfinMalta’s 2024/25 season. The company now proudly presents the work internationally with performances in France\, Germany\, Italy\, and this July\, at  Dance Days Chania\, Crete. View more international tour dates here. \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”]\n		Book Tickets\n\n[vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nChoreography by Sita Ostheimer\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\nIn Mortal Heroes\, Sita Ostheimer invites us into a visceral exploration of human potential—an odyssey through chaos and love\, shadow and light\, fragility and force. Her choreography becomes a poetic search for the ‘Other\,’ a love letter to resilience\, to the human capacity for survival\, renewal\, and transformation. Crafted with her signature language of movement\, layered with evocative music by Adrien Casalis and immersive lighting by Barnaby Booth\, Ostheimer’s work creates an atmosphere both intimate and vast. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nA charged\, pulsating space emerges—tense yet alive—suspending the audience in a state of continuous anticipation. It is here\, in this emotionally electrified realm\, that the body\, mind\, and spirit are pushed to their outer limits.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThrough dynamic and deeply human encounters\, Mortal Heroes unfolds as an emotional collision: delicate yet explosive\, aggressive yet tender. Viewers are not passive observers—they are drawn into the work’s rhythm\, evolving alongside the dancers\, touching something raw and essential within themselves.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Ostheimer’s process\, transformation is perpetual. Beginnings and endings blur\, giving way to a ceaseless cycle of becoming—an ever-renewing space where the heroic lies not in perfection\, but in vulnerability\, courage\, and the will to continue.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]“The visuals\, dynamics\, music\, and qualities of moving bodies in my work allow dancers and viewers to discover a barely touched realm of their existence and experience the unseen motivation behind all moving forces. In Mortal Heroes\, the aim is to create a pulsating and tense space that will put the audience in a high state of unceasing inner excitement and allow them to experience the power and ability of body\, mind and movement.”  Sita Ostheimer  [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.zfinmalta.org/event/mortal-heroes-on-tour-jul-22-26/
LOCATION:Mikis Theodorakis Theatre\, Chania\, Crete\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:NÁCAR at Dance Festivals Malta
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1587042757740{padding-bottom: 7% !important;}” z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nNÁCAR at Dance Festival Malta\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”]\n		Book now\n\n[vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nNÁCAR returns to Maltese stages for Dance Festival Malta this July. Experience the driving force of Paloma Muñoz’s powerful work\, as part of programme 3B (25th July) at Teatru Manoel\, Valletta. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nNÁCAR explores a desire to inhabit ghosts; those that survive in images\, that persist in our bodies\, and call out from the invisible. In this powerful new creation by Paloma Muñoz\, one of Spain’s most innovative choreographic voices\, suspended figures appear frozen\, breathing and decomposing under the gaze of others. As their flesh is exposed their bodies call out\, striking one another as a call to resist and remember. NÁCAR invites us to lend our bodies to the memory of others — to become vessels of presence\, beauty\, and shared echoes.  \n \n“Bodies as vessels of resonance. Offered\, overlapping and available\, allowing the dead to look\, speak\, and move through them\, so that what is no longer here may insist and take form again as gesture and presence. Invocation and luminous possession: a ritual where memory infiltrates with a crooked smile\, unfolding between the sacred\, the ornamental\, and what still breathes. A delight held like a spell.” – Paloma Muñoz \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.zfinmalta.org/event/nacar-jul-25-26/
LOCATION:Teatru Manoel\, Old Theatre Street\, Il Belt Valletta\, VGX6+WX\, Malta
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