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 2017

Cutting edge dance, theater and art installations showcased the artistic exchange between Europe, the Middle East and North Africa during Dancing on the Edge Festival 2017 in 4 Dutch cities from 8 till 18 November.

Dancing on the Edge believes in the power of art as a laboratory to experiment, meet, and at times touch upon the more sensitive parts of our societies. Asking questions instead of looking for easy answers. Without ready-made solutions, but with an eye for complexity, multi-dimensionality, fluidity, and above all humanity.

Therefore, the 2017 program had a strong focus on new work and (ongoing) artistic research. Times that ask for new theatrical languages and innovative festival formats: the 2017 edition saw Skype performances, a performance at sea (in winter!), an international exchange between Dutch and Lebanese theater companies and a Meet the Artist lab.

Also check out the DOTE magazine, an extra elaborate festival program in celebration of 10 years Dancing on the Edge:

…or browse through our archive below to see the performances and events that took place during Dancing on the Edge Festival 2017

Program

The Second Copy: 2045

(MOROCCO) A memorial mockumentary on Moroccan art What is the position of the contemporary art world? And how does it influence the artworks that

Installation: KASHASH

(SYRIA) #SyriaSixthSpace #KASHASH #Syria #Freedom #Fly Since 2011, the start of the Syrian uprising, the mysterious disappearance of several pigeon breeders (kashash) across the

Installation: The Atlantis Project/Sea of Stories

(SYRIA/LEBANON/THE NETHERLANDS) An interactive installation of living stories Are we able to overcome our fear of the other and the illusion of a fixed

(SYRIA/LEBANON/THE NETHERLANDS) A multidisciplinary performance about diversity and uniformity Is guilt lived by a community, paid for by the individual? When you decide to

(IRAN) An exercise in collective amnesia Is it possible to push out memories, replace them or force yourself to forget everything? How do we

(EGYPT) Multiple Reflections of inner flow Portray is created with an urge to unravel the layers of a body through its reservoir. Tapping into

The Resilience of the Body

(EGYPT) Testing the ability to recover from or adjust to… Post Spring, post hoping for change: how can we keep going? The Resilience of

A Ticket to Atlantis

(LEBANON/SYRIA/THE NETHERLANDS) An immersive and site-specific performance at the sea side What if the sea could remember? What if she had a voice? What

A visual lecture-performance on the reception and consumption of contemporary images In Mind, The Gap, Hani Sami intertwines performance, theoretical musings and visual projections.