Archive for August, 2010

News from Lebanon

Omar Rajeh, who was part of IDFB 2010’s Outspoken Weekend, is still touring with The Assassination of Omar Rajeh. There are two performances at the Aarhus Festival in Denmark on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 August.  

The Assassination of Omar Rajeh, photo by Tim Cross for IDFB 2010

Rajeh is Beirut-based Maqamat Dance Theatre’s artistic director. He is working on a solo entitled Can You Hear Me?, which will be presented as a work in progress at Constane Cambiamento Festival in Florence, Italy next month.

Omar Rajeh in The Assassination of Omar Rajeh, photo by Tim Cross for IDFB 2010

Magamat Dance Theatre also is working with Sasha Waltz & Guests and Sareyyet Ramallah to create Takween-Beirut Contemporary Dance School 2011, which is an annual three-month intensive contemporary training programme aimed at young people who wish to take on dance and performance as their careers. Takween-BCDC is from Sunday 5 September – Sunday 5 December. Dansgroep Amsterdam and Mancopy Danskompagni are also collaborators on this project.

(With thanks to Dance-Tech for the video)

Still here…

Although International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010 has now finished, over the next few months we will be updating this blog with updates on what some of this year’s festival performers are up to, recommend some more fantastic international dance to see in the UK, and give a sneak preview to some of the exciting plans we have for future festivals.

IDFB is online

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