the intimacy of collision engages with Orientalist aesthetics of representation. Focusing on form and rhythm, the work deconstructs “Middle Eastern” folk dances bringing them into conversation with contemporary movement vocabularies.
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Dominique Tegho: the intimacy of collision
In doing so, the piece shapes a dancing body that unsettles and disrupts orientalist imaginaries. Three performers draw from the rhythmic structures of Dabke and the cyclical loops of Baladi, creating a dance that oscillates between anger and celebration.
The project turns toward the many iterations of the Dance of the Seven Veils, an orientalist spectacle first imagined in Oscar Wilde’s play Salome from 1893. the intimacy of collision examines how friction, collision, and encounter can function as strategies for interrogating the orientalism that has shaped perception of the bodies across more than a century of Western imagination.
(ARABIC, ENGLISH)
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Choreography: Dominique TeghoDance, voice: Anthony Nakhlé, Dominique TeghoDrag artist: HassandraSound design: Basel NaouriLight design: Marco CiceriCostumes, head piece : Mathilda Rejouan - Mounia StudiosDrag outfit: Naomi TaraziDramaturgical support: Manolis Tsipos, Polina Fenko, Nima SéneOutside eye: Charlie PrinceProduction management: Tammo WalterDabke coaching: Nancy NasreddineVoice coaching: Wafaa SaiedHair & Makeup: Hassandra
A production by Dominique Tegho in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by AIR Burgenland; SHIFT – a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union (Maqamat Omar Rajeh, Albania dance meeting festival and Fabbrica Europa); DIORAMA Berlin; Culture Moves Europe; Ausland Berlin. The 35th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and HZT Berlin. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Rausgegangen, Siegessäule, taz.
A production by Dominique Tegho in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by AIR Burgenland; SHIFT – a Creative Europe project co-funded by the European Union (Maqamat Omar Rajeh, Albania dance meeting festival and Fabbrica Europa); DIORAMA Berlin; Culture Moves Europe; Ausland Berlin. The 35th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and HZT Berlin. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Rausgegangen, Siegessäule, taz.
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January 2026
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