And we shimmered as we crossed from one reality to another (AfterMyth)

Projected across three silver screens, masked figures dance on a desolate, snow-covered beach, their cheerleading, navigational gestures, and pas de bourrées lingering as haunting remnants of a world that has long since vanished. Set in an unnamed, ambiguous future, the dance is both a reflection of lost time and a glimpse into a fragile present. Exploring the boundaries of in/visibility, the piece looks at what lies beyond and behind the image, navigating between ‘here and there’ and ‘then and now.’

Inspired by Rita Lucarelli’s concept of ‘gate-scapes’—a term used to describe the numerous gates and guardians depicted in Ancient Egyptian funerary texts—the piece offers a series of moving images and texts performed through the cinematic trope of a pop-horror dream sequence.. As the dance continues on screen, other mysteries unfold in the darkened theater, inviting you into an eerie, poetic space.

• Noha Ramadan creates performances, video, and collective events. Drawing from a long and continuing practice of dance improvisation, their work utilises a distinctly cinematic approach to sound and movement, and attempts to articulate the subject’s capacity to inhabit multiplicity and strange relations. They co-founded Jacuzzi, an artist-run space in Amsterdam, where they organize and support various projects. They grew up on unceded Darug/Guringai land in Australia, and currently live and work in Amsterdam.