Laundry of Legends is a dance performance based on The Arab Apocalypse, by the late Lebanese poet Etel Adnan. It is a death poem. This particular text is an oracle making, death fuelled time-machine, transformed by dancing bodies. Death poems emerge when there is a gathering. They start in the body, and reassemble themselves within us in fragments.

Death poetry is a special kind of political healing; baroque, cruel, and cosmological. It offers hospitality, companionship, by giving concrete indications on how to surrender, how to betray death, how to be playful with absence.

For this piece, Etel Adnan and her poem The Arab Apocalypse, tells us where to look – at the way children dance, or how corpses still retain invisible movements, or when bodies are crouching, shaking, bent in threatening postures.

This dance work by Jassem Hindi is performed by Justin de Luna, Clara Furey and Simon Portigal, with poems by Etel Adnan, CA Conrad, and Aase Berg.