Loom: Roshanak Morrowatian, Omarleen & Soft Break

Subbacultcha and We Are Public present a new edition of Loom: an event series showcasing boundary pushing creative disciplines ranging from live performances and DJ sets to contemporary dance and visual arts. Loom events are focused on showcasing local talent, making it an exciting platform to discover all things upcoming, niche and subculture, sprouting from the creative underground scene in the Netherlands. 

This Loom edition presents a captivating trio of performances, guiding the audience through an immersive program that unites contemporary dance, experimental music, and an electrifying DJ set. Dancer Roshanak Morrowatian, joined by Mami Izumi, performs a fiery and intimate contemporary dance performance titled Alphabets of Flesh. The music programme spotlights emerging talent Omarleen, while Soft Break unites the evening with her dynamic DJ skills. The artwork is created by graphic designer and artist Cleo Tsw.

This time, we’re excited to host Loom at a new location, taking place at the cultural center Jungle in Amsterdam Oost on November 28th.

Alphabets of Flesh (Dance performance, performed by Roshanak Morrowatian & Mami Izumi)
In the dance performance Alphabets of Flesh, choreographer and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian makes you feel what it is like to be a body in diaspora. Together with dancer Mami Izumi, she envisions the fragmented experience of time and space of people who have left their native land. The here and there and the now and then merge into memories and dreams. Alphabets of Flesh creates a temporary home in which differences are embraced and uprooting is a source of strength.

What remains of your ancestry if you are displaced? What experiences – also from generations before you – are stored in your body? In a sensory journey, Morrowatian searches for the feeling of home. Where and with whom is home? Can your body be your home? Do you need the past to define the ‘now’?

Omarleen (Live performance)
Omarleen is a Syrian-Dutch sound artist and Image researcher based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Omarleen researches the poetics of images by investigating how the documentary form documents a reality that questions its truthfulness. In the live music performances, Omarleen combines a unique variety of approaches. Expect the unexpected – electronic improvisation followed by unreleased collaborative tracks, mixed cassettes and more. Their performances create an atmospheric noisy, calm, sweet, and harsh soundscapes that brig the listeners to a sad hell and bring them back with a helpless hope.

Soft Break (DJ set) 
Soft Break is a Rotterdam-born and based DJ, audiovisual artist and designer.
Early encounters with her city’s jungle, dubstep and grime scene are heavily reflected in her eclectic sets. Her DJ sets move through gentle vocals, percussion, hard drums, footwork, hiphop and sub destroying bass. Expect genre-busting, aural narratives, full of unexpected twists and turns.

She is a founding member of the influential collective AMPFEMININE, curating mixes by femme-identifying DJ’s, booking talent and hosting events and parties.

Through her work in music, design, and art, she aims to highlight Black Dutch representations in archives and questions notions of memory, identity, space and time. Soft Break has performed and talked on panels regarding feminism, spatiality of social relations and queers politics at institutions such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Het Nieuwe Instituut.

Loom is free for Subbacultcha and We Are Public members.
Subbacultcha members can reserve a free ticket by sending an email to mailinglist@subbacultcha.nl with ‘Loom’ in the subject + your name in the text.

We Are Public members can reserve their free ticket here.
Regular tickets are €12.60, available here.

PS. Until November 30, we have a special campaign offering one month free for new Subbacultcha members. Join Subbacultcha now to attend this an all other events on our programme for free. 

Loom is kindly supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst & Fonds 21.