Haider Al Timimi

Haider Al Timimi (1979, Baghdad) works across theatre, dance, and performance. Born in Baghdad and raised in Ghent, he began his artistic journey in breakdance and hip-hop culture. He worked as a dancer and choreographer with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Rosas, and as an actor and performer with companies including Union Suspecte, Compagnie Cecilia, KVS, STAN, Walpurgis, and BRONKS. Within Union Suspecte, he developed his first original work. In 2012, he co-founded the theatre company Kloppend Hert. Later, he also co-established artistic initiatives, including TransfoCollect (Brussels), Jong Gewei (Ghent) and Magma (Kortrijk). Since 2020, Haider is the artistic director of Antigone. Outside of Antigone, Haider also remains active as a performer and dancer.

Plays

Wavelength* – 2026

Feed Me Please: (Love, Hate & Everything in Between) – 2022

De Barbaren – 2021

Zero for Conduct – 2019

Studio Sheherazade – 2018

Utopera – 2017

Layla’s Fool – 2015

Bite the Hand that Feeds You – 2014

Ich bin wie du – 2012

*Texts published at De nieuwe toneelbibliotheek

Haider Al Timimi Lucius Romeo-Fromm
Wavelength

Lucius and Haider dance a conversation — uncertain whether it will end as a duet or a duel. Beneath the surface, tensions simmer: clashing opinions, misunderstandings, sensitivities, and frustrations. They face each other with the only weapons they know —their words, and the language of dance. They listen, shout, and whisper through a charged pas-de-deux.
Wavelength is the theatrical embodiment of a real conversation between Haider Al Timimi and Lucius Romeo-Fromm about our polarized world. One arrived in Belgium from Iraq; the other from the United States. Together, they share their concerns about the state of things — echo chambers, cancel culture, our cosmic insignificance, and the growing rift between worldviews that makes coexistence seem impossible.
From there, they dance in search for a possible answer.

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