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Zarohma is a world with a language of its own, invented by theatre director Soubhi Shami. A surreal yet real space and time, where fantasy and freedom take unfamiliar forms.

The piece connects the political world outside with the intimate relationships between its characters, leaving room for you to discover your own stories, questions and your own answers.

In Zarohma, understanding moves beyond words. Its language holds momentum, presence and belonging rather than ownership. Love and compassion without possession. Yet those who inhabit this world still struggle with what it means to be close.

🗓 21 & 22 October
7:30 doors, 8 pm start

📍 ZiMMT
Torgauer Str 80, Leipzig

Entry donation 10-25 euros (cash only)

Reservations via team@forte-leipzig.com

💡 Save the date and spread the word!

Concept & Direction: Soubhi Shami
Music: Neam Tarek
Performers: Deniz Kalkan, Ruth Ennis, Meriem Rouabah, Shady Gries, Shaa'ban, Neam Tarek
Stage Design: Raneem Matouk, Soubhi Shami
Choreography Assistant: Shady Gries
Costumes: Alaa Al Shemmari & sewing group of Deutsch-Spanische Freundschaft

Big thank you also to our production partners

@studijo_leipzig
@gvl_leipzig
@studiodabouss
@d_s_f_leipzig taken in Leipzig Ost by @forte.leipzig

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Meet our Choreographic assistant of #zarohma ⚡️

Shady Greis is a contemporary dancer. Started in 2014 and is into interactive shows, improvisation
and collaboration between artists of different disciplines of performing and visual arts.
Trained in different workshops of local and international instructors inside and outside Egypt.
Attended one week of the summer intensive of HJS 2018 by a partial scholarship from dancing on the edge organization. Also attended the summer intensive of deltebre dansa 2018 and was awarded the danceweb scholarship 2019 receiving a grant to be able to
participate by mophradate org.
Shady was also chosen within other 15 dancers from the mena region for the online special edition of dancing on the edge 2020 online format.
Shady Greis created Amwaj initiative in Alexandria in August 2020 and has been studying at Salzburg academy for experimental dance for two
years.

Zarohma
Musiktheater Production
🗓️ 21&22 of October 2026
📍 @z.i.m.m.t

Photo by @m.i.m.s.k.i taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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Die Performer stellen euch ein paar Facts über Zarohma vor: eine Sprache, die ihre ganz eigene Grammatik und Philosophie hat. Entwickelt wurde sie von @soubhishami und im Probenprozess zusammen mit dem Ensemble zum Leben erweckt.

Zarohma
Multimedia Theater
21 & 22 Oktober
@z.i.m.m.t Leipzig

Performers | Ruth Ennis, Deniz Kalkan, Meriem Rouabah, Shady Gries taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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Behind the scenes of ZAROHMA rehearsals 🎭

I‘m so exited about this premiere. The rehearsal period with this wonderful team is a real gift.

📅 21 & 22 Oktober 2026
📍ZiMMt Theater, Leipzig @z.i.m.m.t
🎟️ tickets & info: https://forte-leipzig.com/project/zarohma-music-theatre/

A big thank you to @forte.leipzig for organising and supporting the project.

Thanks to @filmflicks08 for these beautiful pictures 📸

#zarohma #theater #leipzig #regie #forte taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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Welcome our Stage & Fashion designer of Zarohma Raneem Maatouk ⚡️

Raneem is a multidisciplinary artist based in Leipzig. She studied Visual Communication at Arab International University in Syria and completed her Diploma in Painting and Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). Since 2021, her work has been presented in exhibitions across Germany and Switzerland.

Her works across media in a poetic and conceptually driven practice. Rather than using media as illustrative tools, she approaches them as poetic and communicative instruments. Her work moves between figurative modernism, post-surrealism, and contemporary conceptual, installation, and performance art, often employing collage-based approaches to time and narrative.

She explores themes of existence, memory, and reality through a poetic visual language. Blue frequently functions in her work as both an atmospheric state and a conceptual carrier.

Welcome to Forte family 🙏🏼🙏🏼⚡️

Zarohma
Multimedia Theatre Production
21 & 22 October
@z.i.m.m.t

📷 @liamera.art taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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Für die Theaterproduktion Zarohma hat @soubhishami eine eigene Sprache erfunden mit einer eigenen Philosophie. Der Ausdruck für Theater auf Zahroma setzt sich zusammen aus "der beleuchtete Spaß" 🤗
Wir laden euch herzlich ein zum beleuchteten Spaß am 21.&22. Oktober im @z.i.m.m.t im Leipziger Osten!
Am besten ihr reserviert per Mail an team @ forte-leipzig.com taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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Diese Woche bei GVL: Am Dienstag startet die offene Projektwerkstatt von @vivavittoria_leipzig. Am Donnerstag folgt Black Spaces x Sci-Fi Reading Circle. Am Freitag wird es sportlich beim Indoor-Cycling-Event „Draußen dunkel, drinnen Radfahren!“ und am Samstag spielen @maze.band.le und @basalt.offiziell live. Parallel läuft noch bis Ende der Woche die geschlossene Probe von @forte.leipzig für Zarohma, das am 21. & 22.10. im @z.i.m.m.t aufgeführt wird. Weitere Informationen zu den einzelnen Veranstaltungen findet ihr in den nächsten Slides.

Viva Vittoria Leipzig - offene Projektwerkstatt: 06. Oktober von 15:00-18:00 Uhr

„Mit Viva Vittoria möchten wir auf Gewalt gegen Frauen und FLINTA*Personen hinweisen. Das Projekt besteht aus tausenden gestrickten und gehäkelten Quadraten, mit denen wir im März 2027 den Leipziger Marktplatz bedecken. Dazu müssen wir sie je zu 1x1 m großen Decken zusammennähen (je 4 Quadrate) – das machen wir gemeinsam im offenen Raum. Kommt vorbei und arbeitet an euren eigenen Projekten oder näht mit uns zusammen, dafür müsst ihr nichts mitbringen und auch nichts können – wir können das gern gemeinsam machen.“

Black Spaces x Sci-Fi reading circle: 08. Oktober von 18:30-20:30

„We read: U.K. Le Guin’s „The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas“ and N.K. Jemisin’s „The Ones Who Stay and Fight“. Both texts are in English; the talks can be in English and German.

This event is B_iPoC only.

For texts and questions, please register through this email address: rcalet@proton.me“

Draußen dunkel, drinnen Radfahren! – ein lustiges Indoor-Cycling Event: 09. Oktober von 18:00–21:30

„Für Hobbyradsportler, Pendler und Alltagsfahrer. Eine Mischung aus Jahrmarkt, Kneipe und Basar – mit Tombola, Siegerehrung und Musik! An den Reglern: @musikdelikat (Ilses Erika). Mit großartiger Unterstützung von @kastenbrauerei aus Connewitz!! Es gibt Helles vom Fass und tolle Gewinne!

In Kooperation mit dem @bikedepartmentost machen wir einen Rollensprint, auch „Goldsprint“ genannt. Vor Ort stehen zwei Fixies auf jeweils einem Rollentrainer, gefahren wird mit Alltagsschuhen auf Flatpedals mit Straps. Starts sind zwischen 18 und 21 Uhr möglich, Anmeldung vor Ort, Startgeld zw taken in Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (Leipzig) by @forte.leipzig

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Zarohma ist unsere neue Musiktheater Produktion von Regisseur @soubhishami
Darin geht es um Kommunikation jenseits der Sprache. Im Video erklärt Soubhi mehr über die Idee hinter dem Stück. Die Geschichte entsteht am Ende im Kopf des Publikums...

Save the date:
21. & 22. Oktober
@z.i.m.m.t

Mehr über Zarohma und die Mitwirkenden veröffentlichen wir in den nächsten Wochen! taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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✨ Discover the world of Zarohma with us and create your own zarohmic object ✨

A new musical theatre production that invites you into a world full of magic, music, and emotion. 🎭✨

📍 Torgauerstr. 78, 04318 Leipzig
📆 03.-04.10.2026 beginning at 2 PM
Workshop by @raneem_maatouk

📩 For more information and registration contact us here: art@forte-leipzig.com

Don’t miss the shows on the 21. & 22.10.2026 at @z.i.m.m.t

#Zarohma #MusicalTheatre #Leipzig by @forte.leipzig

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Recap to our 2025 theater production "Exercise of celebrating nonsense together”: we were so happy to play two sold out shows at @neuesschauspielleipzig in early 2025.

Stay tuned for our new production coming 21 & 22 October 2026! ✨️

Thanks for the beautiful photo documentation @ehabsadi

》Exercise of celebrating nonsense together 《

Concept & Direction: Neam Tarek & Soubhi Shami
Multimedia Performance: Kata Potrykus
Stage Design: Jere Ikongio
Choreografie: Shady Greis
Script Supervisor: Hanin Hanafi
Puppet Maker: Ihsan Abou Said
Visual Support: Majd Amer
Performance: Zei, Yasmine Soliman, Hamada Ghadeer, Sophie Erlenkamp
Puppeteer: Majed Al-Khatib & Jule Schneidermeier

A production of Forte e.V. by @forte.leipzig

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Sneak peek: rehearsals for our new theater production are in full swing. Props and costumes are in the making ✨️

Save the date: 21 & 22 October @z.i.m.m.t

Concept & Director @soubhishami

More info coming soon.... taken in Leipzig, Germany by @forte.leipzig

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We are happy to share more details for the upcoming Leipzig Oud Festival 2026, happening November 13-22.

The masterclass held by @alaazouiten approaches the oud from the western end of the Arab world, where Maghrebi, Andalusian and Iberian repertoires have been in conversation for centuries.

We begin with material rarely written for the instrument: original Gnawa techniques and Moroccan and Algerian Chaabi patterns, transposed onto the oud and adapted to what the instrument can actually do. From there we move into flamenco — building falsetas, accompanying a singer, and working through the harmonic and chordal thinking that Maghrebi music and flamenco each bring to the same modal material, with Anouar Brahem's Tunisian playing as a contrasting model of phrasing and restraint. Plectrum technique runs through all workshop days as a practical thread.

💡 The class is aimed at advanced players. Participants are expected to be secure in maqam, comfortable with risha technique and able to learn by ear at tempo.

📌 Deadline for masterclass applications 31 August !
Email to art@forte-leipzig.com

Alaa Zouiten is a Moroccan oud player, composer and curator based in Berlin whose work rests on what he calls plaisir transculturel: the pleasure of moving between traditions, rather than the duty of connecting them.

Born in Casablance, he trained on the oud at the Conservatoire National de Marrakech, beginning in Moroccan fusion as a member of the Gnawa-rock band Jbara. Based in Berlin for over a decade, he has since worked across jazz-rock, Arabic-Andalusian repertoire, flamenco, orchestral musicand theatre, on three albums of his own and in a long list of other people's projects.

His album AFICIONADO – Flamenco Moro (2025), the result of years of study in Andalusia, was awarded four stars by Songlines and has been performed at the Bienal del Flamenco in Seville, on tour in China and at @hkw_berlin. As a curator he built the festival Sonic Pluriverse – Global Echoes of Gnawa at HKW in 2026.

// Leipzig Oud Festival is an event of Forte e.V. // by @forte.leipzig

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