4100 YEARS
RE/VERBERATIONS
WITH HALIM EL-DABH
Invocations Part II 23.10.–24.10.2021
With Halim El-Dabh, and Leo Asemota (with Agnieszka Bulacik, Monika Gabriela Dorniak, and Anna Rose), Fari Bradley, Saliou Cissokho, Tanka Fonta (with Elisabeth Boardman, Edem Meier AKAKPO, Josep López, Raisa Galofre, Ki Hyun Park, Willy Sahel, Lenny Overton-Daiber), Emma Howes and Justin Kennedy, Satch Hoyt, Hasan Hujairi, Timkehet Teffera Mekonnen, Yara Mekawei, Thokozani Mhlambi, Moneyama, Ali Moraly, Joe Namy, Rania Refaat, Sam Shalabi, Alice Shields, Cindy Islam
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LIVE & STREAMED ONLINE via our Facebook and Youtube channel
Programme
Saturday 23.10.2021 | |
16:00 | Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Kamila Metwaly INTRODUCTION |
Online | |
16:15 | Halim El-Dabh Speaks |
16:30 | Joe Namy Sonic No. 7: The Diversion of the Variable SOUND DIFFUSION AND LECTURE |
At SAVVY Contemporary | |
17:10 | Yara Mekawei The Mechanism Take One SOUND PERFORMANCE |
17:30 | Aryan Kaganof Excerpts from Unyazi of the Bushveld FILM SCREENING |
18:15 | BREAK |
| 18:30 | Hasan Hujairi Reorienting Maverickism LECTURE |
19:00 | Mohammad Rabie Fragile Joys POETRY INTERLUDE |
19:20 | Timkehet Teffera Orchestra Ethiopia and the Contribution of Halim El-Dabh LECTURe |
19:45 | Ali Moraly Intonations – Genesis PERFORMANCE |
| 20:15 | Break |
20:30 | Fari Bradley Inside – Outside LECTURE PERFORMANCE |
20:55 | Fari Bradley and Sam Shalabi in conversation, moderated by Hasan Hujairi PANEL DISCUSSION |
21:15 | Leo Asemota with Agnieszka Bulacik, Monika Gabriela Dorniak, and Anna Rose Eternity doth wait (Here History Began – Berlin Session) PERFORMANCE |
21:45 | Break |
22:00 | Mohammad Rabie Fragile Joys POETRY INTERLUDE |
22:05 | Sam Shalabi Footnotes MUSIC PERFORMANCE |
| 22:30 | Cindy Islam Mirroring Entropy SOUND INTERLUDE |
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Sunday 24.10.2021 | |
16:00 | Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Kamila Metwaly WELCOME |
ONLINE | |
16:10 | Halim El-Dabh Speaks |
16:15 | A Note from Habeeb El-Dabh |
16:25 | Thokozani Mhlambi Playing with Tape! ONLINE PERFORMANCE |
16:40 | Alice Shields In the summer garden, Sappho reads to her friends & A Note to Halim El-Dabh SOUND DIFFUSION |
AT SAVVY CONTEMPORARY | |
| 17:05 | Rania Refaat El-Pergola Puppet Theatre LECTURE AND PERFORMANCE |
17:30 | BREAK |
17:40 | Emma Howes and Justin Kennedy Pirou-pyro-silo-alouette DANCE PERFORMANCE |
| 18:10 | Sam Shalabi The Psychedelic Footnote LECTURE |
18:30 | Tanka Fonta with Elizabeth Boardman, Edem Meier AKAKPO, Josep López, Raisa Galofre, Ki Hyun Park, Willy Sahel, Lenny Overton-Daiber Polyphonic Dialogues with Halim El-Dabh CONCERT |
| 19:10 | Mohammad Rabie Fragile Joys POETRY INTERLUDE |
| 19:20 | BREAK |
19:35 | Satch Hoyt Black Bedlam LECTURE PERFORMANCE |
19:55 | Hasan Hujairi Brother Bushra, Brother Bushra SOUND PERFORMANCE |
20:20 | Yara Mekawei in conversation with Ali Moraly, moderated by Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock PANEL DISCUSSION |
20:50 | BREAK |
| 21:05 | Mohammad Rabie Fragile Joys POETRY INTERLUDE |
| 21:10 | Saliou Cissokho MUSICAL PERFORMANCE |
| 21:35 | Emma Howes and Justin Kennedy Pirou-pyro-silo-alouette DANCE PERFORMANCE |
| 22:05 | BREAK |
| 22:20 | Yara Mekawei The Mechanism Take Two SOUND PERFORMANCE |
| 22:50 | Moneyama DJ SET |
In this very special year, we continue to honour Halim El-Dabh by thinking, listening, playing, singing, dancing and summoning the voices of vitality as he has been doing for decades in his sonic endeavours. Halim El-Dabh would have turned 100 years old this month and would have continued to carry the 4000 years of pyramids, making him 4100 years old.
To celebrate the scope, diversity and depth of the work of musician, Pan-Africanist, creative musicologist, seminal composer, and philosopher Halim El-Dabh, and to open our research, exhibition and performance project HERE HISTORY BEGAN. TRACING THE RE/VERBERATIONS OF HALIM EL-DABH we invoke voices, homages, imaginations and musical visions into a day-long INVOCATIONS of musical performances.
Following the first iteration in this year’s spring, in these second INVOCATIONS we will continue to revive the multi-layered texture of his life and practice: his role in establishing Orchestra Ethiopia and collaborating with the musicians who took part in the legendary years of the ensemble; his long-term dialogue with Martha Graham and her company through his musical and sonic contribution for stage. Through all we give our senses to the music, sound, performances, conversations that are inspired by Halim El-Dabh.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
INVOCATIONS CURATORIAL TEAM Kamila Metwaly, Lynhan Balatbat, Lili Somogyi
INVOCATIONS PRODUCTION TEAM Karen Heinze, Lia Milanesio, Sagal Farah, Onur Çimen
GENERAL MANAGEMent Lema Sikod
MANAGEMENT Kamila Metwaly, Lynhan Balatbat, Lili Somogyi
COMMUNICATIONS Anna Jäger
GRAPHIC DESIGN Juan Pablo García Sossa
SOUND ENGINEER Olivia Oyama, Ola Zielińska
LIGHT Sanja Gergoric
STREAMING Boiling Head Media
Funding This project has been kindly supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues, the Goethe Institut and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Project Partners MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues and Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Thanks Over the last four years, we have worked to build up an archive of El-Dabh, which was made possible only by the immense generosity and knowledge shared by Halim El-Dabh, with continued support by Deborah El-Dabh.
This archive has been built paper by paper, sound upon sound, through intensive research and collaboration with those who worked closely with Halim El-Dabh, his friends and family, and various institutions. We would like to extend our warm thanks to: Habeeb El-Dabh, Dawn Carson, Ron Slabe, Grant Marquit, Magda Saleh, Cara Gilgenbach (Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives), Jan Senn and Melissa Olson (Kent State Magazine), Nick Patterson (Music Librarian at Columbia University), Seth Cluett (Columbia Computer Music Center), Oliver Tobin, Ellen Graff, and Peggy Lyman (Martha Graham Company), Alice Shields, Thom Holmes, George E. Lewis, James Vaughan, Hasan Hajuri, Tommy McCutchon, Colette Lucas (The MacDowell Colony), Janet L. Stanley (Smithsonian Institution), Jeff Ingram (Standing Rock Cultural Arts), Robin the Fog (BBC Radio 4), Jeff St. Clair (WKSU), Nasri Zacharia and B. Lorenzo Roaché (Harlem International Film Festival (Hi)) and the archives of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Archives, Smithsonian Institute and Howard University Archives.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU to Deborah El-Dabh and to everyone who has supported us in the making of this exhibition and keeping Halim El-Dabh’s legacy and memory alive.
