Shağaf / Singing Hearts (UA)

Breathing, singing, and dancing together, Sufi believers celebrate the ritual of Hadra. They move in community to the rhythms of the cosmos, along the paths of the planets, and in harmony with seasons and life processes. In the intoxication of deep trance, they experience liberation from the limitations of the ego and becoming one with the divine as universal love. Shağaf - the Arabic word for love - has explosive power: in the context of Sufism, it is not only an intense dimension of religious experience, but also a resistant element against dogmatism and orthodoxy.

In the interaction of song, dance, word, video and Sufist-influenced improvisational music, Amal Omran creates a modern hadra, as a shared experience with the audience, to celebrate the individual as well as universal power of unconditional love.

Gefördert vom Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Realisiert aus Mitteln des THEATERPREIS DES BUNDES.

WAZ, Andrea Müller

"A great singer with a crystal-clear and extremely versatile voice is at the center of the approximately one-hour performance: Noma Omran's impressive singing becomes more and more haunting from minute to minute. [...] The audience is very taken with this interesting, spiritual journey"

Deutschlandfunk TAG FÜR TAG, Dorothea Marcus

"Becoming one with the other in a trance, in a kind of universal love [...] - even if it sounds pathetic from the outside, it is impressively truthful on stage"