»The message seems clear. Bring the women of this world into the light! Don't leave them out in the rain.« – tanz.at

In Arab and Iranian culture, »tarab« happens when a body is gripped by music, and physical sensation is enhanced. This heightened moment, when the body and music unite, is a door to ecstasy and enchanted sensuality. In ›TARAB‹, the third part of a trilogy, ATASH عطش contemporary dance company focus on unexplored, under-represented and in some places forbidden movement material, healing ceremonies and odd rhythmic patterns of Pre-Islamic, Middle Eastern cultural heritage. Dance and music material that has undergone multiple forms of Euro-colonial and Islamic translations, in which women, from being the primary holders, got either reduced to sexualised ›oriental‹ entertainer-dancers or forbidden from practising them all together. Accompanied by the complex rhythms of the virtuoso percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, seven dancers embody these millennia-old movement materials.

In ›TARAB‹ the Iranian choreographer Ulduz Ahmadzadeh creates a counterpoint to the widespread images of commercialized and Westernized versions of ›Middle Eastern‹ dances. Accompanied by the complex rhythms of the virtuoso drummer Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, seven dancers embody these millennia-old movements.