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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?
© Danny Willems
© Danny Willems
November 5, 2013

We start this week!

with Master Class Program, dabke workshop, and Badke
Click on the project on the right side of this page for more info on the performances mentioned below.

The festival starts Wednesday November 6th with the Master Class Program featuring Kassem Istanbouli & Leon van der Sanden (coach) at the University Theater in Amsterdam. Istanbouli and Van der Sanden will work on Istanbouli’s performance Koum Yaba. The events on November  6th and 9th are open to the public and the admission is free. On the evening of the 8th of November in Amsterdam there is a dabke workshop at Danshuis Zajednica, and in Enschede the Dutch premiere of Badke takes place at the Wilminktheater. On Thursday November 14th the festival opens officially with the same performance at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

Badke

Energetic mix of Palestinian folk dance, contemporary dance, hip hop and circus ‘Badke’ is a distortion of ‘dabke’, a Palestinian folk dance. The performance starts […]

Master Class Program

Palestinian theater talent to be coached by renowned Dutch theater director Kassem Istanbouli (1986) uses a diversity of theater forms including traditional productions, street theater, […]

Dabke Workshop

Linked to the performance Badke, Dancing on the Edge organizes a number of dabke workshops. This popular folk dance from the Middle East with a […]
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