Soraya Leila Emery
Coming Soon
Presented in collaboration with Emergentia, the platform for emerging choreographic creation, produced by L’Abri, TU – Théâtre de l’Usine and Pavillon ADC Genève. French-speaking Swiss premiere.
The odalisque: reclining languidly on a divan in a sumptuous harem, she is the quintessential sensual figure—idealised, passive, waiting, desirable. But who is she, and what is she waiting for?
Coming Soon revisits Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque (1814), using humour to subvert the orientalist gaze that shaped this iconic image. On stage, a many-sided character shifts from one role to another and from one tableau to the next: mischievous, brazen and in complete command of pleasure as an art form. Through grotesque exaggeration, familiar images are distorted and multiplied, making space for new narratives to emerge. Something is always about to happen, yet never quite does. What, or who, is coming soon?
Distribution
Concept, artistic direction and choreography: Soraya Leila Emery
Performance: Soraya Leila Emery
Role cover and choreographic development support: Hakima Sinekli
Sound design: Sinan Moses
Lighting design: Ursula Degen
Costume and scenography: Moni Wespi
Scenography assistant: Nina Orgiu
Headpiece design: Carolina Misztela
Puppetry consultant: Georgia Paliogianni
Art history consultant and outside eye: Hortense Belhôte
Outside eye: Cassiel Gaube
Tour technical direction: Patrik Rimann, Jon Brunke
Dramaturgy (Tanzhaus Zürich): Lea Moro
Critical friend: Meloe Gennai
Accessibility consultant: Kristina Jankovic
Production: hot stuff / Producer: Romeo Oliveras
Touring: Simon Fleury / Co-produced by: Tanzhaus Zürich; Théâtre de l’Oriental, Vevey
Supported by: Stadt Zürich Kultur; Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich; Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council; Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung; Anne-Marie Schindler Stiftung; Oertli-Stiftung; SIS – Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung / Partners: Tanzhaus Zürich – Accompliceship (CH); K3 | Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE); Pro Helvetia – Cairo research trip (MA); Rote Fabrik (CH); Théâtre de l’Oriental, Vevey (CH); Dansomètre, Vevey (CH); Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)
