The jungle is a new and infinite territory, where the possible has another meaning, or perhaps none. From which side can we enter the jungle, to taste this dream? The starting point of Mowgli is the very title, taken from a recent song from French-rap-duo PNL, where the reference to the jungle denounces the still-used projection of wildness onto the body of young citizens with translocal background. And yet the image of the jungle also invites to be re-appropriated from the inside: the possibility of inventing a different law, opposed to the one of the city. Set in the obscurity of a fictional night, each appearance in Mowgli is a wild experience: choreography, poetry, storytelling, The Jungle Book, the lyrics of Iranian singer Googoosh and the ones of PNL. Through them, Sorour Darabi constructs a collection – or almost an album – of lived and fantasized stories, crossing the themes of chosen family, melancholy and urban legends. Step by step, Sorour Darabi transforms the stage into a jungle, and the jungle into a playground for the self. Becoming wild is a political project.

Conception, text, choreography and performance Sorour Darabi
Light Design and Scenography Jean-Marc Ségalen
Sound Design Elena Tissier
Outside Eye Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Dries Douibi, Mathieu Bouvier

Production Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Executive production DEEPDAWN

Coproductions : Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Alkantara, Sophiensaele, Tanzquartier Wien, workspacebrussels, WP Zimmer, Theater Frascati, Teatro Di Roma, Kaserne Basel, Spielart theaterfestival Munich,
Kunstencentrum Buda, Spedidam, Fonds Transfabrik - Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant Supports : Les Subsistances, Centre national de la danse (Pantin), La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne, L’Échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Centre national de danse contemporaine ANGERS, Montévidéo / Centre d’Art, Kunstenwerplaats, Beursschouwburg

TOUR

May 18th - 22nd -  Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Beursschouwburg - Brussels (Belgium) 

May 12th & 13th 2021 Frascati International 2021, Amsterdam (Netherlands) 

October 28th and 29th 2021 Tanzquartier Wien (Austria) 

October 26th & 27th - Spielart - Munich (Germany)

March 18th and 19th 2022 - RADIKAL Festival, Munich (Germany)

July 13th 2022 - Tanzpol Festival, Berlin (Germany)