REMEMBRANCE: Crystal tears | Performance
Hend Elbalouty (EG/DE)
With the participation of Cyprus-based performers
04.10.2026 | 20:30 | 30’
Synergeio Performing Arts Center
Language: Non-verbal
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Remembrance: crystal tears reframes female grief as a cosmic force of renewal and continuity. A single tear holds multitudes, a nation, a lineage, a river of lost names. The performance becomes an embodied lamentation, where memory is not only recalled but made physical, fluid, and sacred. It extends beyond the human, holding water, land, planets, and non-human beings as witnesses and carriers of memory, suggesting that grief moves across species, elements, and worlds. Tears become both lament and seed, where grief and survival are intertwined.
Remembrance: Crystal Tears asks: how can grief, trance, and madness be reclaimed as practices of agency and resistance? What does it mean for grief to be not only private, but a shared act of remembrance and knowledge?
Disclaimer: The track contains hypnosis material used in the piece
Credits:
Concept and Choreography: Hend Elbalouty
Music: Mohamad Moe Sabbah
Photo: Occupied stage festival
