Dance-Theatre Production | 2019

A micro-production by UAE based dance-theatre company Avega Dance Creations, Dear Goodbye houses eight short stories about closing chapters and finishing cycles. Sourcing experiences from the lives of the dancers and using the stage as a journal to write dance stories, the production explores self-discovery through loss of self, identity, relationships, home and ego.

Becoming Goodbye, the opening story of the production, portrays the protagonists letting go of attachment and bidding goodbye to the self.

Story 1 (Opening Act):  Becoming Goodbye

Paint myself naked

Hollow skin to skin

Washing sin with sorrow

Filtering Heavy travels light

Becoming goodbye

Bittersweet dyed in hope

Marching whispers to the white

Echoing light

Echoing light…

“The choreography for this 2 minute piece practically sprung out of the text and the music. It was a very intuitive process. We improvised independently, two parallel narratives along the same theme. And when we put it together, we found moments of meeting and departing. It was a very joyful and liberating experience.”