Song of Refugee/ dance performance of MIHR Theatre

The Song of a Refugee

Contemporary Dance, Site-specific Performance

 

“The Song of a Refugee” is a musical genre among Armenian national songs. It is not only about geographical migration, but also about loss and longing for the homeland. This is one of the most honest genres because the pain is so strong that it cannot be falsified. The alienation, by force and not by choice, is transcribed into the song.

“The Song of a Refugee” combines and erases the border between space, musician and dancer. We are inspired by national music where the motives of “emigration” are part of everyday life. Longing used to be a process in which people found hope. Now, alienation is the loss of hope that urges the vagrant to search for new land and new aspirations.

This performance was inspired by Heriqnaz Galstyan’s sculptural work, “Horovel”.

“I am speaking of alienation in my own way. The flail (an agricultural instrument) becomes a symbol of the motherland and people who leave their motherland, considering it small for themselves, even though they are attached to it with strings, and that attachment with different kinds of strings turns into another carpet which reflects us…” Heriqnaz Galstyan

Art. Director: Tsolak MLKE-Galstyan