the rest is noise is a celebration of joy as resistance: an invitation to listen deeply, to move together, and to find communion amidst the tumult and the chaos.
An ensemble of rhythmic bodies gather in an empty room , composing a living chorus of polyphonic punk prayers :
Stubborn, fragile, and sacred, they dance at the threshold between collapse and renewal.
A practice of resonance amidst the noise, they sing the spiralling song of a transmuting world.

Credits:
Artistic Direction and ideation: Charlie Khalil Prince
Choreography and movement created in collaboration with Andrea Cantoro, Troy Florent, Adding Ginzburg, Nisrine Hagen, Guusje Kummer, Déborah Sounouvou, Sampo Stevenson, Rojas Bugys, Maria Ines Calvimontes Barrientos, Zoé Da Silva, Orphée Gokpon, Victória Moreira, Zaquel Phipps,Evelina Roze, Magdalena Simeonova, Gabriel Fiuza, Fleur Philipsen, David Richards, Marúsa Jakopic
Rehearsal Direction: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito
Music: Edo - Maxime de Nuc
Metal - Suuns & Jerusalem in my Heart
Audio excerpts from interview with Ghassan Kanafani and the film ‘Chronicles of A Disappearance’ by Elia Suleiman.
Produced by University of Amsterdam, Expanded Contemporary Dance under the direction of Gideon Poirier.

Premiere: June 17,18,19,20 @ Expanded Contemporary Dance, Amsterdam, Netherlands