In Daughters of the River, Adham Faramawy incorporates dance, sound and spoken word to tell stories of the romances and toxicities of rivers and waterways. Borrowing from Alexander Pope’s poem ‘Windsor-Forest’, the performance slips between poetic and narrative storytelling, taking the audience on a fluid journey through these aqueous ecosystems. The performance explores the tense, often porous borders between purity and impurity while tracing the imperialist roots of popular waterways that serve as life-giving forces to millions. Drawing on history, mythology, fiction and queer desire to reveal the colonial undercurrents of rivers, Faramawy consequently identifies them as sites of ecological collapse. The performance will be at the Stone Nest in Central London, 11 July 2024.
June 14, 2024
