Performance | Faster than light, always

Faster than light, always is a sound and choreography production by Wonder Cabinet bringing together British-Palestinian movement artist Sasha Shadid, Palestinian movement artist Adan Azzam, and Ramallah-based interdisciplinary artist Julmud.
It is part of Wonder Cabinet’s ongoing body of work exploring the Cremisan Valley through architectural, sonic, visual, and ecological investigations.
The performance speaks to the aesthetics of the Cremisan Valley and to the ways in which occupation forces have been encroaching upon one of the last remaining green spaces around Bethlehem, further suffocating its community. More broadly, it uses the body as a medium for claiming the land, embodying its ample and smooth curves, its terraces, and the bearing trees it cradles.
Wonder Cabinet presents this production developed in the framework of Sounds of Places 2024, an annual residency-based sound gathering exploring the sonic aesthetics of place initiated and curated by Wonder Cabinet and transmitted through Radio AlHara.
Following its development in Palestine, the performance is now co-presented in London by Mosaic Rooms and Another Sky Festival. It is presented on the festival’s opening night.
The performance will take place in Mosaic Rooms’ garden (weather permitting).

Image: Faster than light, always at Sounds of Places 2024. Photo by Yousif Lama. Courtesy of the artists.

Sasha Mahfouz Shadid (he/him) is a British/Palestinian, born in Portsmouth, Southsea. He is an experienced movement artist, painter and culture worker. His greatest passion is Street-dance, focused on Hip Hop, Krump, House Dance and traditional Palestinian dance, learning these from artists and renowned dancers from around the world.
Adan Azzam is a Palestinian dancer and founding member of Studio Collective, born in Nazareth. She trained in ballet and contemporary dance at Aida Dance School and later completed the Vertigo Dance Program in Jerusalem (2021). She has worked as a performer, teacher, and choreographer, and participated in international programs such as Nuova X in Turin and the B12 Dance Festival in Berlin.
Julmud جُلموْد is a music producer, researcher and sound engineer/designer based in Ramallah, Palestine, who creates, composes, samples and combines sounds from across the globe to create his own non-generic form of music/sound. He has produced works and collaborated with artists such as Al Nather, Muqata’a, Haykal, Baraari, Makimakkuk and Walaa Sbait among many others. He is currently in the process of producing a variety of solo and collaborative works. His debut album Tuqoos was released in 2022 on Bilna’es.

Wonder Cabinet is i an experimental cultural and production platform that brings together architecture, design, sound, art, craft, industry, culinary practices, and other yet unexplored realms. Wonder Cabinet seeks to produce from Palestine forms of cultural content that resonate globally.

Another Sky is a London-based festival and artistic platform celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. 2026 is its third festival edition.

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