LÍX

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them

- James Baldwin

With LÍX (the number ‘six’ in Somali), X_YUSUF_BOSS presents an ode to man that doesn’t always feel whole, but wants to be. In a medial dance performance, choreographer Mohamed Yusuf Boss explores the fractured self. He makes the desire to be a complete person tangible in a dance solo. Proceeding from the view that one’s history is not in the past, but something that is stored inside you, he explores his bi-cultural background. What does it mean as a fist generation Somali to grow up in the Netherlands? What happens when histories meet? And not only histories, also Mohamed’s dance languages, hip-hop and the traditional Somali dance Djandheer. LÍX stands for the sixth member of Mohamed’s family, his father who at the end of the eighties, was not able to flee to the Netherlands. What does it mean to grow up without a father now that Mohamed has two children?