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Oil is a deadly pearl. Sun Eaters is a contemporary folk dance about the mythological origins of petrol. It is inspired by petro-magic, petro-horror poetry and the tradition of vengeful dances.

If Oil is an immense, collective, anonymous material, it can only be accessed through another similarly collective and anonymous material: folk dance is a perfect device for this purpose. It is alive, unburied, incarnated, and it waves back at us. Oil is a vicious poem hidden in darkness.

Sun Eaters blends dances from Norway, Brittany and West Asia. It is drenched in doom metal, pre-islamic iconography, levantine maqams and Norwegian curse tunes. Sun Eaters twists and betrays what it summons, and rekindles with the cruelty of oil to incarnate its deadly, seductive smile.

Credits:

Concept, scenography, sound: Jassem Hindi & Sina Seifee
Choreography: Jassem Hindi
Dance: Charlott Utzig, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Harald Beharie
Production: Marie Ursin
Costumes: Amy of the costumes 

Photo credits: Jassem Hindi