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no shadow
Work in Progress seit 2006
Von und mit: Nigar Hasib, Shamal Amin

Wir schaffen einen fließenden Raum,
in dem die Stimme und Lieder zu Lust werden.
Die Stimme ist einer Handlung ähnlich,
mit der man immer etwas Neues weiter entdecken kann.
Shamal Amin
Stimme für das Auge und nicht nur für das Ohr!
Nigar Hasib
Diese Performance wurde von 2006 bis 2011 in verschiedenen Versionen als Performance und als methodische Demonstration mit Workshop und internationalem Arbeitsaustausch in Österreich und an 14 internationalen Theaterfestivals, sowie an Schauspielschulen und Kunst- und Theaterakademien in: Griechenland, Kosovo, Ukraine, Polen (Grotowski Year 2009), Bosnien Herzegowina, Bulgarien, Ägypten, Jordanien, Marokko und Japan durchgeführt.
Mit dem Forschungsprojekt „no shadow“ und der Weitererforschung der „Lieder als Quelle“, widmet sich das Lalish Theaterlabor, in Performance, der heute weitgehend vergessenen archäologischen Suche nach der menschlichen Stimme, nach ihrer Wirkung und ihren individuellen und kulturellen Ursprung. Mit diesem Forschungsprojekt versuchen Nigar Hasib und Shamal Amin eine eigene mittelbare und künstlerische Sprache zu entdecken, die außerhalb des linguistischen Zeichensystems steht.
Shamal Amin nennt diese neue Arbeitsphase des Lalish Theaterlabors „Aufbruch zur abstrakten Feierlichkeit“:
Shamal Amin und Nigar Hasib versuchen immer einen leeren Raum zu schaffen, der durch Stimme und Bewegung erfüllt wird. Ein Raum, in dem die Umgebung zu einem „Überall und Nirgends“ – zu einem Ritualort wird und die Zeit sich in ein „Immer und Nie“ – in eine Ritualzeit verwandelt.
Die Stimm- und Gesangsmaterialien dieser Performance basieren auf alte kurdische, metraische und eigene komponierte experimentelle Kehkopfgesangs- und Stimmtechniken.


Daten für Performance:
am Europe Acts VIII/International theatrical meetings
Plovdiv/Bulgarien
Juni 2011
am 7th international conference “Performing Tangier”
Intermediality & Performance
Tangier, Tétouan/Marokko
August 2011
Gast bei KulturKIK in Altaussee
Steiermark/Österreich
November 2010
am 17th international Jordan Theater Festival
Amman, Zarqa/Jordanien
Dezember 2009
am International Art-Forum “Alter Ego”
im Kontext von Grotowski Year
Sofia/Bulgarien
November 2009
am Kosovo international Theatre Festival
Prishtina/Kosovo
Oktober 2009
am MESS international Theaterfestival
Sarajevo / Bosnien-Herzegowina.
am 5th International Festival of Making Theater
Athen/Griechenland
Juni 2009
April 2009
Oktober 2008
am 20th Cairo international festival for experimental theatre
Kairo/Ägypten
September 2007
am III international theater festival/Theatre, Method and Practice: alma mata
Lviv/Ukraine
Oktober 2007
im Rahmen des Projektes „Bagdad in Love“
Wien/Österreich
April 2007
am DAM international Musik Festival
Prishtina/Kosovo
November 2006
am Skena UP international Film-und Theater Festival
Prishtina/Kosovo
August 2006
am International Zephirus festival of alternative theatre
Griechenland/Kreta
Juli 2006
am JAALA international Festival
Tokio/Japan
Juli 2006
auf der non-verbale Kommunikation/Shinshu Universität
Matsumuto/Japan
Spezialpräsentation von "no shadow" ab 2006
Spezielle Präsentation der Performance "no shadow" in verschiedenenVersionen und Entwicklungsphasen mit Vortrag, Workshop, offenem Labor, internationalen methodischen Austausch, Foto Ausstellung und Filmdokument über die Arbeit des Lalish Theaterlabors:
- Im Rahmen der performativen Treffen im Lalish Theaterlabor in Wien/Österreich
- Sommer offenes Labor vom Lalish Theaterlabor/Österreich
- parallel zu Perfomences und Forschungsprojekten des Lalish Theaterlabor "Projekt: Niederhof/Österreich.
- parallel zu Performance und Forschungsprojekt "Drei Brücken" des Lalish Theaterlabors in Lviv/Ukraine
- parallel zu Performance und Forschungsprojekt "the song is back" und "Monos" des Lalish Theaterlabors/Österreich
- Als Teil der Lalish Theaterlabor Projekte in Kurdistan/Irak
Speziellpräsentation für Studenten von Theater und Kunst:
- Universität Wien/Österreich
- Shinshu Universität in Matsumuto/Japan
- Kunst Fakultät / Universität Prishtina/Kosovo
- Ivan Franko Nationaluniversität Lviv/Ukraine
- Theater of Change in Athen/Griechenland
- Akademie der Drama in Sarajevo/Bosnien-Herzegowina

no shadow
Work in Progress from 2006
With and by: Nigar Hasib, Shamal Amin
With the research-project “no shadow” and the continuing research “Songs as a Source”, the Lalish Theaterlabor dedicates itself, in performance, to today’s mostly forgotten archeological search for the human voice, its individual and cultural origin and its direct impact.
All this leads to a new way of communication in performance. And special work on own composed experimental Voice- and Singing techniques. Voices and songs become the source of rhythm, of physical presence and also the source of action.
Shamal Amin aptly named this new phase in the work of the Lalish Theaterlabor the “Awakening of the Abstract Solemnity”:
“We create a flowing space, wherein voices and songs turn into pleasure. The voice resembles an action which always allows one to discover something new.”
This new, non-linguistic language in the performance work of the Lalish Theaterlabor therefore distinguishes itself fundamentally from today’s so-called artistic languages of world theatre, which primarily deal directly with representation, with things, subjects and stories.
Shamal Amin and Nigar Hasib always try to create an empty space, which then becomes filled with voice and movement. A space in which the surroundings turn into an “Everywhere and Nowhere“, into a ritual-space and time transforms itself into an “Always and Never”, into a ritual-time.
Songs and voices are not being employed to deepen a dramatic plot or to connect two scenes to one another, or to try to embody the theme of a song. Neither are songs performed for special occasions or to fit a given situation. The Lalish Theaterlabor’s “Songs as a Source” surpass all these limitations and deconstruct such techniques.
Nigar Hasib, describing this process: “ Songs create our actions, but our actions do not interpret our songs lexically. Therefore each song, each vocal action, prescribes its own precise movement-score for the body. The body deals directly with the “Life of the Sounds” and its acting becomes organic instead of purely technical. In this way of acting the body doesn’t become a part of the voice and the voice a part of the body, but they form a unity, because that unity is the original source of expression.”
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Data of the Performance:
The performance "no shadow" as a work in progress was performed from 2006 in differnt experimental versions and development phase in Austria and at the different international theatre and music festivals.
October 2011
at Europe Acts VIII/International theatrical meetings
Plovdiv/Bulgaria
June 2011
at 7th international conference “Performing Tangier”
Intermediality & Performance
Tangier, Tétouan/Marocco
August 2011
Guest by KulturKIK in Altaussee
Steiermark/Austria
November 2010
at 17th international Jordan Theater Festival
Amman, Zarqa/Jordan
December 2009
at The International Art-Forum – ALTER EGO in context of Grotowski Year
Sofia/Bulgaria
November 2009
at Kosovo International Theatre Festival
Prishtina/Kosovo
October 2009
at MESS International theatre festival
Sarajevo/Bosnia Herzegovina.
Award Sound of MESS 2009 for Lalish Theaterlabor “no shadow”
Professional Jury of the 49th MESS International Theatre Festival, including Rada Nuic (author of the scenic music), Mersid Ramicevic (music writer and composer) and Vesna Andree Zaimovic, musicologist and editor on the Radio Sarajevo reveals the award for the musical shaping of the theatre expression. The Award Sound of Mess was given to the performance no shadow of the Lalish Theaterlabor to Nigar Hasib and Shamal Amin. The performance is awarded for the projection of the musical vocal expression on the theatrical act through ritual and archetype vision. We consider that their presence on the 49th MESS International Festival and general international scene would advance the new methods inside the speech singing. The music language in this audible performance has become the theatre through the reducing procedure.
July 2009
at 5th International Festival of Making Theatre
Athens/Greece
June 2009
at “The World as a Place of Truth” in context of Grotowski Year 2009;
An international theatre festival of Grotowski Institute
Wroclaw and Brzezinka/Poland
April 2009
at the international “Giving Voice Festival” in context of Grotowski Year; various segments of „no shadow“.
An international Festival of Centre of Performance Research/Wales in Cooperation with Grotowski Institute/Poland
October 2008
at 20th Cairo international festival for experimental theatre
Cairo/Egypt
September 2007
at The third international theater festival alma mata
Lviv/Ukraine
October 2007
at international art project: Baghdad in Love
Vienna/Austria
April 2007
at DAM international festival of Music
Prishtina/Kosovo
November 2006
at Skena UP international Film and Theatre festival
Prishtina/Kosovo
August 2006
at the international Zephirus festival of alternative theatre
Greece/Kreta
July 2006
at JAALA international festival
Tokyo/Japan
July 2006
At non-verbale communication/Shinshu University
Matsumuto/Japan
Special presentation of "no shadow" from 2006
Special presentation of the performance “no shadow “ in differnt versions and development phase with lecture, workshops, open laboratory, international methodological exchange photo exhibitation and film document about the work of Lalish Theaterlabor :
- As part of the performative meeting of Lalish Theaterlabor in Vienna/Austria
- summer open laboratory of Lalish Theaterlabor/Austria
- parallel with performance and research project
of Lalish Theaterlabor „Projekt: Niederhof/Austria.
- parallel with performance and research project “three bridges“
of Lalish Theaterlabor in Lviv/Ukraine
- parallel with performance and research
projects "the song is back" and "monos" of Lalish Theaterlabor/Austria
- As part of Lalish Theaterlabor projects in Kurdistan/Iraq
Special presentation for the students of theater and art:
- University of Vienna/Austria
- Shinshu University in Matsumuto/Japan
- Faculty of Arts/University of Prishtina/Kosovo
- Ivan Franko National University in Lviv/Ukraine
- Academy of Drama in Sarajevo/Bosnia Herzegovina