UK Premiere

Alina Arshi (Lausanne)

Entepfuhl

Thursday 17 October 2024, 11.00pm11.20pm

19 Harford St
Birmingham, B19 3EB United Kingdom
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20 minutes

Free

This work contains violent imagery.

A person’s upper torso is central. They are holding their elbow up to their mouth with their left hand and biting into the forearm of their right hand.

Gregory Batardon

This is a collage of images, including: some written text in Urdu; a person standing on a blue card with large wheels with the word ‘Titanic’ painted along the side; a piece of paisley fabric; and an image of a foot hanging out of a window.

Alina Arshi

The person is kneeling down, their arms are wrapped around one another and they are biting their forearm. Their fingers are splayed out.

Gregory Batardon

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“‘Any road,’ said Carlyle, ‘this simple road to Entepfuhl, will lead you to the end of the world.’ But the road to Entepfuhl, if followed right to the end, would lead straight back to Entepfuhl, which means that Entepfuhl, where we started, is that ‘end of the world’ which we set out to find in the beginning,” lays printed on page 77 of Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet.

Heavily influenced by her recent return trip to India with references to the mudrās, symbolic hand gestures present in Indian dance, Alina Arshi attempts to excavate her identity and capture the feeling of living between multiple cultures. Entepfuhl is a bite-sized dance performance that packs a real punch.

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Credits:

Created and Performed by: Alina Arshi
With thanks: Jessica Allemann, Robinson Filomé Starck, Nicole Seiler

Additional support from La Manufacture, Les Urbaines, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain

Fierce Says

Alina’s doing something here that’s so visceral, so strange, and so utterly compelling. She’s serving Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son-slash-ouroboros realness: a bite-sized dance performance that packs a real punch.

Details

Thursday 17 October 2024

11.00pm

Birmingham Black Box Theatre