marigram [mar-i-gram] noun: A marigram is a record of the sea level; since sea level is not constant, the marigram is generally fluctuating. Not only tides but also seiches, forced waves, and long-term fluctuations (stagional or secular) are recorded.

Marigram began from a 2015 conversation between Annie Wang and Mohamed Yousry Shika, when the Black Lives Matter protests were stirring up their respective memories of Tiananmen Square 1989 and Tahrir Square 2011. “Marigram” is an exploration of the tidal structure of mass protests: approaching, flooding, receding. In this current moment of #BlackLivesMatter we couldn't help but be reminded of protests past and those feelings of tentative hope, giddy possibilities, fear, tension, disappointment, and constant questioning.This performance invites observer into a constructed public square where a live solo dancer accompanied by video installations evokes the fluctuations and tide-like patterns of mass protests.(hyperspacedance.org)

Choreographed by Annie Wang and Mohamed Yousry Shika
Film direction by Laura X Moya

Collaborators: Tuçe Yusak (lighting + set design), Yuan Liu, Kay Hu, Francesco Chiot (film artists), Zeyad Gohary, An Debie (photographers)

Premiered at FiveMyles June 28 - July 1 2018
Technical work-in-progress showing at BRIC on May 24th 2018

http://hyperspacedance.org/projects/current 

http://fivemyles.org/new-events-1/2018/6/28/performance-marigram-8re7j