Three Seconds

Three Seconds is a journey through the intimate corridors of the performer’s head and into the world of her dreams. As perhaps the only private place that humans can still access, dreams are places where (self) consciousness turns a blind eye, and allows repressed desires, old memories, and daily details to interweave and create their own magical scenarios and film-like sequences.

Referring to the average length of a dream, Three Seconds reconstructs such sequences, taking the audience through minimal yet magical combinations of movement, light and sound to experience that world, while following a character who is stuck in a world of dreams. Who are we in this alternative world? At night, we might be criminals, lovers, prophets, or heroes, but still wake up as if nothing has happened.

October 11, 2019 at 7:30 PM

About the artist

This performance is a collaboration between Theatre Maker Mayar Alexan and Choreographer Hoor Malas.

Hoor Malas: A Syrian Contemporary Dancer and Choreographer. Graduated from Ballet School in Damascus. A B.A in dance at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus 2007.  A Diploma in Contemporary Dance from NSCD – Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds/UK 2008. She is a co-founder of “SIMA Dance Company” in 2006. Some of her choreography works: Wishing I was stone (2014), Above Zero (2015), Regression (2016),  Three Seconds (2018), Hanging (2019).

Mayar Alexan: A Syrian Theater Maker. Graduated from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus – Acting department (2013). His latest projects as a maker are: Incomplete: in collaboration with Petra Huskova and Juliana Sokolova (2016), A ticket to Atlantis: location Theatre in collaboration with Lina Issa (2016), Three Seconds (2018), and Hanging (2019).