Music & Dance Performance with Suhaee Abro and Sarah Sarhandi

Explore an electric international collaboration between a composer/performer and a dancer/choreographer with accompanying artists, coming together for the first time in the UK as part of the Nunnery Cafe Residency.

both universe ‘what she whispered and what we screamed’ is a performance-in-progress by Suhaee Abro and Sarah Sarhandi. An entanglement of dance, music, sound, spoken word and film by Sarah and Suhaee, the work centres collaboration and sharing. The first part of the title emerged from Sarah’s previous multi collaborative performance ‘Both Universe’ at The Southbank, a term discovered in a poem by the revered and iconic Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. ‘What she whispered and what she screamed’ is inspired by a line from Joan Didion’s masterpiece ‘Slouching Toward Bethlehem’.

both universe: what she whispered and what she screamed will take us from the intimate to the exterior, the delicate to the savage, from the feminine space to the masculine and out into the collective arena, migrating through and across territories and cultural boundaries. Sometimes the work is mysterious; at other times lucid. Sometimes it’s strongly earthed; at other times otherworldly and etherial. Some pieces are set, others improvised.

Suhaee’s dance/movement and Sarah’s viola performance are the supple, elastic and luminous threads that intertwine and weave through.

This is their first programmed performance together in the UK. They will be joined by the renowned percussionist Mark Sanders and multi award winning artist/film maker Sophie Molins.

The performance includes collaborations with composer and guitarist Aamir Zaki & composer and musician Musadiq Sanwal.