HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?

HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?

HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?

HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?

HOW CAN WE SHIFT PERSPECTIVES AS A PLATFORM, AS ARTISTS, AS AUDIENCE?

Festival 2015

The fifth edition of the Dancing on the Edge Festival took place from 4 to 13 November 2015. The festival gave a glimpse of the state of the art in the Middle East and North Africa, and presented original, urgent and contemporary theater, dance, and installations. The festival is a platform for artists to show what moves them. This edition focused more than ever on artistic exchange and presents several collaborations of Middle Eastern and Dutch/European artists. With topics, themes and perspectives relevant to artists and audiences worldwide. Next to performances in theater venues, there were showings in public spaces as well as an extensive context program, called Arts & Minds, with after talks, workshops, debates, a participation project, music, and food.

AMSTERDAM 4-8 November (Brakke Grond) | THE HAGUE 5-6 November (Korzo) | UTRECHT 10-11 (Het Huis), 12-13 November (Stadsschouwburg Utrecht) | ROTTERDAM 12-13 November (Rotterdamse Schouwburg)

With extra context program in University Theater, De Theaterschool, Surinamehuis, Pakhuis De Zwijger.

Browse through our archive below to see the performances and events that took place during Dancing on the Edge Festival 2015

Program

Cineblend meets Dancing on the Edge

The developments in the Middle East and the resulting influx of refugees in Europe has made a dialogue with artists from this region and

During the festival, the cafes in the different theaters serve special daily dishes with a Middle Eastern theme.

Late Night / Dance on the Edge

After the opening performance, as well as some other nights, the audience has the possibility to lounge in the foyers with either short musical performances

Introductions and After Talks

Several introductions or super-lectures will provide an insight into the artistic, historical or other contexts relevant to a specific performance, the introduction is about.

Why Theatre?! Collaborative Writing

This edition of Why Theatre?! deals with ‘collaborative writing’ and the relationship between writer, performer, and public. A talk with Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour

Open Encounter The Boat is Sinking?

The Boat is Sinking? is an open encounter with artistic interventions and debate. The event engages the intensifying paradox between the usual exultation of globalization

Exchange Meeting – Theater in the Arab World

A round table with different artists from the festival about their theater practice, locally and internationally. What are their artistic motives? What difficulties do

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (2012)

In the midst of a growing social and religious oppression in Egypt, something as simple as an on screen kiss has become taboo. This

No Admittance (2015)

Empty date boxes, water containers, and peanut cans are some of the packagings left by Adrian Melis at the foyer of De Brakke Grond. At