SUNGAZING AT HAU2 — CASSIE AUGUSTA JØRGENSEN & DANIIL SIMKIN DANCE TO ROOM-FILLING SOUND FROM LABOUR

With reverberating drums, giant video projections and wild strobes, Labour’s performances are multi-sensory, avant-garde affairs. The Berlin-based composer duo, comprising Tehran-born sound artist Farahnaz Hatam and U.S. drummer Colin Hacklander, have gained acclaim for their boundary-pushing live sets and monthly NTS show. Now they are adding movement to the mix with Sungazing (رضایت), a performance premiering this Saturday (03.12.2022) at HAU2 that will feature star dancers Daniil Simkin and Cassie Augusta Jørgensen (“رضایت” is Persian for “consent”). Sounds, lights, projections and dance combine to turn the black box theater into an immersive audiovisual arena. Sungazing continues a performance Labour put on during last summer’s X100, a festival at Kraftwerk dedicated to the late Greek electronic composer Iannis Xenakis. For this latest show, the duo turn their attention to Zoroastrianism, a religion that was dominant in Persia until the arrival of Islam in 650 AD. Expect mind-bending electronics, precision dance, psychoacoustics and a whole lot of drumming.

Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Frankie Casillo & Enes Guc

Sungazing (رضایت) premieres this Saturday (03.12.2022) at HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

Tickets for the performance may still be available from the box office on the evening.

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