After four years of working together in Red Tomato collective with three other members, Noha (Egypt) and Ophelie (France) decided to explore a duo-form highlighting similar life experiences but also how their origins and what they explore nowadays give them different perceptions of public space, performing arts, and more generally interactions with the larger society. We are here exploring how the public space affects our female bodies in the light of where we come from; how we experienced this violence, perceive it and how it has affected us in different ways. Yet, how our femininity brings us together and links the two of us very strongly. Therefore this duo expresses the commonness and difference towards the heaviness and the prejudiceness provoked by the external environment in which we exist. The use of clowning techniques, the mask represented by the nose, gives us a large scope to explore perceptions and misperceptions.
This video was created through out our first two weeks of exploration and we remain to work on the creation process. The making of the duo is still in progress. We are currently seeking more support through art direction, work space sharing and performing possibilities.
