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 2011

The third edition of the Dancing on the Edge Festival took place from 6 to 17 December 2011 in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Groningen and The Hague.

Artists from Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and the Netherlands participated. In addition to the dance and theater performances, the festival presented visual arts installations and a film program called Critical Syrian Cinema: Roots of Revolution? The Arts & Minds program included a broad variety of lectures, discussions, meetings, debates and workshops. Morocco Moves was the title of the cultural education program of 2011.

Browse through our archive below to see the performances and events that took place during Dancing on the Edge Festival 2011

Program

Stand Up for Your Rights – Debate

Although humor may not immediately come to mind when thinking about the Arab Spring or the work of contemporary artists from the region, it

Contemporary Dance Workshop

Khalid Bengrib (Morocco) and Loren Palmer (New Zealand) are the directors and choreographers of the Cie 2K_Far, based in Casablanca, Morocco. Their works have

Contemporary Dance & Gwana Music – Workshop and Concert

A workshop of sharing, composing, and improvisation, mixing rhythm and movement, and using Moroccan Gwana music, comtemporary dance and trance dance. The workshop will

Concert Zeid and The Wings

Dancing on the Edge and De Balie are proud to present Zeid and the Wings. A project by Zeid Hamdan; singer, songwriter, musician, and

Film-Essay on the Euphrates Dam (Film-Muhawalah ‘An Sadd al-Furat)

Omar Amiralay | Syria | 1970 | 12′ | B&W | No dialogue This first film by documentary filmmaker Omar Amiralay follows the construction

Revolutionary Bodies – Presentation and Meeting

The three video installations of the festival will be discussed by the different artists, including Fassih Keiso (Syria), Moataz Nasr (Egypt) and Andre Gingras

Merge and Emerge

For Moataz Nasr dancing is liberating. It can be therapeutic, or a rite of passage: a state of trance can be obtained through dance.

By using sound and image, the installation Skin & Fabric examines the tensions between current Eastern and Western perceptions of the body and sexuality. By

Morocco Moves (2011)

In the performance The Smala B.B. given by the group Cie 2k_far, the paintings of Jeroen Bosch were juxtaposed with the absurdist world of