DJAM LEELII, a Necroromantic is a solo performance by Djibril Sall that maps the topography of deathly Blackness onto the Atlantic Ocean. Race emerges here not only as a political identity but as a European delusion animated by excessive production and movement of death along sea routes by the necrotic forces of colonialism and capitalism.
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This work navigates the entangled currents of race, migration, and displacement through the transformational energy of the ocean in order to abstract this history and project it onto the interiority of this solo performance.
Just as the Atlantic is the historic site where humans are and were stripped of their context to be converted into fleshly metal, into living corpses, into Black Things, into drowned citizens, it will become again another site of transmutation—just look, the sun is setting into the horizon of its waters…into a great unconscious, a utopic graveyard. A soft whisper lingers, “djam leelii, the water feels just right.”
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Concept, Performance, Choreography, Costume: Djibril SallOutside Eye: Ashley Temba, Shar AdamsSound design: YATTALight design: Thais NepomucenoSet design: Yoav AdmoniDramaturgy: Julien EnzanzaSound technique: Ari Robey LawrenceProduction: Darcey Bennet
A production by Djibril Sall in co-production with Sophiensaele. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). With the support of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Cité internationale des arts, Emerging Change Festival, Tanzfabrik, sweat variant and Whistle Space. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
A production by Djibril Sall in co-production with Sophiensaele. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF). With the support of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Cité internationale des arts, Emerging Change Festival, Tanzfabrik, sweat variant and Whistle Space. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Dates
November 2025
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