Entepfuhl, 2023, 20', Alina Arshi as part of Dance First Think Later

A young Indian choreographer, Alina Arshi is interested in feelings of loneliness among people with a complex status within different sociological units. Her Bachelor’s project focused on the social and class architecture surrounding immigrants, particularly the parents of migrant workers in host countries. Her travels to India in the summer of 2022 strongly influenced the content and form of her first solo.

“‘Any road,’ said Carlyle, ‘this simple road to Entepfuhl, will lead you to the end of the world.’ But the road to Entepfuhl, if followed right to the end, would lead straight back to Entepfuhl, which means that Entepfuhl, where we started, is that ‘end of the world’ we set out to find in the beginning.” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982)

Arshi, born in Lucknow, India, is a dancer and choreographer based in Lausanne. She obtained her BA degree in Contemporary Dance from La Manufacture in Lausanne in 2023. Entepfuhl, her first solo, was presented at Les Urbaines in Lausanne in 2023, then at Parallèle festival in Marseille; at La Ménagerie de Verre with the Centre culturel suisse and Belluard, Paris; and at Kilbi – Bad Bonn, Düdingen. It is scheduled to be performed at far°, Nyon, at the Fierce Festival, Birmingham, in 2024, and at La Comédie, Geneva, in 2025.

Solo created in 2023 at La Manufacture, Lausanne, 20’ / Acknowledgements: teams at La Manufacture, Les Urbaines, Arsenic, Nicole Seiler, Jessica Allemann and Robinson Filomé Starck. For this presentation of Entepfuhl, Alina Arshi is supported by the bea foundation for young artists.
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Le Commun
Fri 18.10, 7pm; Sat 19.10, 4pm
Alina Arshi, Entepfuhl, 20’, solo performance
Tamar Kisch, The Silence of the Sirens, 30’, solo performance
Tyra Wigg, limb limb limb, 40’, solo performance with live music by Thy Truong