Win Tickets for Laundry of Legends II
Death poetry becomes dance in this multi-discipline performance. Performed in English, French, Arabic, and Swedish, the dancers begin to move to a series of poems that make death their focus. It can vary to facing death, avoiding death, or even dealing with death. According to Hindi, “These particular texts become oracle making, death fueled time-machines when they are transformed by dancing bodies. Death poems emerge when there is a gathering. They start in the body, and reassemble themselves within us in fragments.”
In particular, the central poem is the arab apocalypse by Etel Adnan. Other poems include those by Aase Berg, Kaveh Akbar, and CA Conrad.
This world premiering work is brought to the MAI by choreographer and conceptual artist Jassim Hindi and danced by Clara Furey, Simon Portigal & Justin de Luna. Hindi is the 2022 – 23 artist in residence at the MAI.
Hindi is an artist living in Norway, born to Lebanese and French parents. He has created a number of award winning works that blur lines between arts disciplines as well as make use of unusual spaces. In his bio, Hindi describes how he creates works that are created out of nervousness and necessity, using broken stories, objects, and sounds meshed together in a pluri-idiomatic manner. He specifically statest that, “There should always be something I’m missing in my practice.”
Interested in Hindi’s Laundry of Legends II? We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away. To enter, just send an email to [email protected] before noon on May 17th with the name of your favourite poet. The pair of tickets are for May 19th show.
Now’s your chance to see this innovative work FOR FREE. All you have to do is enter the contest.
To win a pair of tickets, in the comments below or by email HERE, tell us the name of your favourite poet before May 17, 2023 at noon. Winners will receive info about retrieving their tickets on October 8 by email.
Laundry of Legends takes place at the MAI (3680 Jeanne Mance) from May 18 – 20, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $28 (regular)/22 (reduced) /16 (junior and groups). For details and tickets, click HERE.
Some fine print for your reading:
Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. One entry per person per email address per Contest Part during the Contest Period. Winner must answer the contest question. Contest starts May 14 and ends May 17 2023 at noon. Winners will be selected at random on May 17 2023 in Montreal, Quebec at noon and notified by email. There are (1) prize available to be won, consisting of one (1) pair of tickets to attend the show.
FOR RESIDENTS OF QUEBEC. Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.
For more of the generic contest fine print, read HERE.