Dabke ورشة دبكة
DANCE Workshop 11. & 18.12.2024 16:30–20:30
WITH Nancy Naser Al Deen
Language The workshop takes place in English & Arabic
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS Our space is accessible by wheelchair
PARTICIPATION The workshop is open to all, but has limited capacity with half of the spots reserved for our neighbours living in Wedding. If you are interested in joining us, kindly send an email with subject line "Dabke" to weddingaffairs@savvy-contemporary.com with your name and in which neighbourhood you live.
Dabke is a folklore dance home to Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan and Iraq, among others. Using stomping and repetitions, the circle/line formation creates space for community to practice a collective flow.This workshop will be focused on dabke styles practiced in Baalbeck, Lebanon. We will get together and go over basic steps of Dabke and practice different styles until we create space for a dabke circle to come together.
Dabke is Community
Dabke is Resistance
Dabke is Gravity
Dabke is Togetherness
Dabke is Anger
Dabke is Celebration
Dabke is Revolution
Dabke is Protest
Dabke is Ancestry
Dabke is Future
Dabke is in our blood
Nancy Naser Al Deen is Baalbeck-born multidisciplinary performance artist & scenographer based in Berlin. Nancy’s collaboration-based practice is guided by choreographies of bodies in relation to space. Naser Al Deen uses tools of architecture, scenography, & performance, to map, archive, and investigate politics of marginalized bodies in urban space. Transnational solidarities is their guiding compass. Nancy is a Dabke Dancer trained by Hayakel Baalbeck.
FUNDING This workshop is part of Wedding Affairs, our neighbourhood gatherings within the 15-months-long programme TRANSITIONS, funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
