A Europe where anti-Arab stereotypes once again are being wielded as political weapons: that is the context in which Dominique Tegho’s the intimacy of collision unfolds its furious and frequently euphoric force. In Tegho’s trio with Anthony Nakhlé and Hassandra, the austere rhythms of folk dances like the Levantine Dabke or the Egyptian Baladi clash with Western orientalist fantasies, which have left deep marks in dance history as well, e.g., in the famous and endlessly reinterpreted “Dance of the Seven Veils” from Oscar Wilde’s drama Salome (1893). The Lebanese, Berlin-based choreographer “shapes a dancing body that unsettles and disrupts” racist imagery which not only discriminates people but still poses an active threat to them.

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