
El kamar bi zaher (“The blossoming moon”)
January 16 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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January 16 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
El kamar bi zaher (“The blossoming moon” in Arabic), fuses Middle Eastern gestures with contemporary dance. Staging her ancestry with lamps, rugs and cushions, Chanel Cheiban frees herself from the diktats of the orientalized female body and stereotypes about Arab women. In this solo work, Cheiban is accompanied by multi-instrumentalists Nadine Altounji and Oisin Hannigan, and singer Najla Jaffel, who perform the great classics of Arab music.