Abdalla Omari is a Syrian painter, performing artist and filmmaker currently living in Brussels. Most recently he has created “The Vulnerability Series”, depicting world leaders in highly vulnerable states, breaking their image of ultimate power.
“Vice Versa” is a multi-media performance project between the visual artist Abdalla Omari and the dance artist Benno Voorham. “Vice Versa” can be characterised as a documentary performance. A work that is compelling in its way that it speaks about some of the most difficult things we can speak about: the impact of war on the individual and more specific on the lives and experiences of children. The authors have chosen to tell different stories from the position of a witness. They have developed a performance in which we shift from being the narrator, the witness and the poetic interpreter. Voorham and Omari believe that both dance and visual art have the potential to speak about the world we live in a poetic and imaginative way without becoming too literally. To create a space for our audiences to reflect upon the offer we make. “Vice Versa” is a captivating documentary performance about survival, loss, conflict, destruction and how to hold a seed of hope, optimism and dignity alive.