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

Neutrality (2015)

A photo exhibition with poetic and dreamlike representations of objects not easily recognizable. Still lifes that make the viewer rediscover his own living environment. Akkari

Moving Matters (2015)

In different venues of the festival, a rotating program of films can be seen in special viewing boxes, and a mini-cinema for two. With

How does it feel to be pronounced dead, to be wrapped in clothes, while you are still alive? Nothing is certain. Survival rises from

Leaving Syria by sea and over land, reaching the Netherlands… Blue is a short dance performance about a migration story CONCEPT Jol Alholo, Hannibal Saad

Night without Borders

Experience, listen, dance, taste, love and negotiate with us Borders are being blurred and Europe is contemplating how far to open its doors. How

A story full of blanks, to be completed on stage WORLD PREMIERE Nassim Soleimanpour created with White Rabbit, Red Rabbit a theater performance without

Nachtgasten on the Edge

A thrilling improvisation performance; the audience more informed than the actors A number of terrified, uninformed actors from the festival will inhabit characters unknown

Physical performance about a generation of young men stuck between expectations and reality WORLD PREMIERE Plastic is a physical theater performance about young men

A dancing statement about the appeal of power WORLD PREMIERE Khalid BenGhrib’s Black Table, inspired by Kurt Jooss’ famous political ballet The Green Table,