19:30 – 22:30 (doors open at 19:00)
Each festival day is programmed as one continuous performance: local and international artists share the stage. Stories, performance, dance, music and food gestures overlap. You will be welcomed into a ritualized, collective space.
Share, taste, listen, move, be with us…
A musical invitation. Anastasis Sarakatsanos and Esmail Bnaoe greet us with an intimate soundscape, inviting us to arrive fully—physically, emotionally, together—as we tune in to each other and the space around us. Their music offers a gentle way to ground ourselves before we transition into the unfolding of the day.
In Three Songs to Re-member: A Tree, A Fruit, A Seed, Lina Issa moves through landscapes of memory and loss, of grief and joy, exploring what it means:
To inherit a tree that you can never touch, to pass on a trauma to your child, and to conserve seeds of people that are being exterminated.
This project hosts the practice, contributions and beautiful souls of Vivien Sansour, CurAmuní, Marlies Winkelmeier, Zohra Jaber Issa, and Luna Venezia Issa.
How are our bodies shaped by the streets we’ve walked? How much violence do we carry in our bodies, in our posture? In A Walk to Change by Dina A. Mohamed, two women that have walked through different cities share stories of their bodies. Accessibility, violence, body shaming and how our postures reveal the weight/lack of privilege. Does how we walk shift depending on where we are? Choreography and performance by Flavia Pinheiro.
A rhythmic, durational dance. A journey into the womb. In Womb, dancer-choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry collaborates with musician-composer Ahmed Saleh to create a dialogue between music and pelvic movement. Moving -through layers of inherited and contemporary conditioning—back to the space of power manifestation, the familiar ground of the core.
A film installation will be on show before and after the performance program.
Loving the Land, longing for it and anticipating the return, a film by Palestinian dancer/choreographer Ramz Siam.
All our tickets are pay-what-you-can to offer everyone the possibility to join the festival. If you’re able to contribute more, your generosity helps making this possible.
A free option (accessible with a code provided on request by e-mail to DOTE) is available for those who cannot pay/cannot make a payment to Dancing on the Edge.
Photo by Lina Issa
