Ehsan Hemat - Everything brings us back to the body

As part of his new performance Everything brings us back to the body, Ehsan Hemat, together with artist Selma Banich (Zagreb), explores somatic voice use as a tool to use voice and breathing as an instrument in relation to the sound produced by a brass plate.

TEAM/CREDITS

Ehsan Hemat: choreography & performance
Selma Banich: vocal coach
Roeland Luyten: sound composition
Yasen Vasilev: dramaturgy
Erki Devries: Scenography

Artist Selma Banich lives and works in Zagreb. She conducts experiential workshops exploring the voice and breath as source and medium. Selma has worked as a voice coach with various artists, curators and groups in the Balkans, Europe and the US.

Ehsan Hemat is a Brussels-based dancer and choreographer. Ehsan's debut piece, I Put a Spell on You, is an ambitious exploration of the effects of discipline and control on the human body, which was awarded the Best Choreography prize at the International Fadjr Theatre Festival in 2019. His second piece A in the Role of B when C didn't make it was developed within LaGeste's Co-Labo and premiered at KVS in 2023. Everything brings us back to the body is his first solo performance. The performance starts from the insight that today's digital overproduction and oversaturation of images and information is murdering us and disconnecting us from our bodies. In response, from the interaction between the living body and a non-living object, a large brass plate, his performance focuses on a ritual of visual and auditory reflections.