Girih is a dance play.

Girih (Persian: گره‎, “knot“) is a decorative Islamic geometric artform used in architecture and handicraft objects, consisting of angled lines that form an interlaced strapwork pattern.

By combining lines and curves in the moving physical body we are making and creating lines and curves in the spacetime. The interlace of lines and curves creates a girih like patterns in the world. And than when you combine this with a relation to the gravity you get the whole history of Western dance popping up in your moving body and around it. This than opens up the literally history in making. And then this opens up the idea of history being constantly (re)created in each slice of spacetime. And this than emancipates the perfomer, choreographer, spectator, player.

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1. Have enough space to move with your physical body without intentionally damaging yourself or others.

2. Stand on your two feet in parallel position (the outside of the feet should be parallel as possible – it is for the beginners of the play)

3. Start walking with your feet parallel and play with the lines you are making while walking, always looking for parallelling lines in your PhB or outside your PhB

4. When you notice the circlularity in your PhB, let it appear in movement of your PhB.

5. Play with exchanging parallels and circularity and note the patterns by noticing what repeats.

6. Move from noticing patterns you are making in the space to noticing the patterns you are making in the time and even later in the other dimensions.

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Initiated, devised, DISChOreographed and performed by Ibrahim Qadim
In collaboration with DISCOllective
Produced by International Dance Terrorist Organization
DISCOproduced by World

Played since 2018