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El Funoun 2009 dance performance is a new artistic and exquisite expression
employing new ideas and dance styles combined with inherited traditional
techniques. Together they reflect the various important eras of our recent
history. The performance travels into the Palestinian memory portraying symbolic
and important recurrent images from the Ottoman and British colonial times as
well as the on going Israeli occupation of Palestine. The chosen dances
illustrate the resurfacing images reminding us of the weariness of a past and
present that does not foresee a different future…
However, as they resurface, these images work to confirm the determination of
the Palestinian people to live on, steadfast and resist the tyranny from which
suffering emanates, and as such, hope and resistance is renewed, giving the
resilient power and strength to go on in defending the identity and the struggle
for independence.
The dance symbolizes the will of the Palestinian people in keeping the memory
alive despite all schemes to annihilate them from history.
First Scene: Curfew is imposed (Ottoman era)
Ramanadoul: Cultural fusion
Music: Egypt (World Percussion Album)
Choreographers: Sharaf Dar Zeid & Atta Khattab
Mash’al: Revolutionary orders
Music: Folk tunes, arranged by Tarek An-Nasser.
Choreographer: Khaled Qatamesh.
Assistant choreographers: Najeh Masalma, Nasir Mansour, Atta Khattab, Sharaf Dar
Zeid
Al Hajal: Women’s distinctiveness
Music: Haig Yazdjian (Talar Album)
Choreographer: Noora Baker
Second Scene: Curfew is imposed (British Mandate)
Hizzi Ghourbalik: The joy of harvesting
Music: Folk tunes, arranged by Rami Washaha. Vocals: Mohammed Yacoub & Yalalan
Group
Choreographer: Khaled Qatamesh
Assistant Choreographers: Atta Khattab, Sharaf Dar Zeid, Noora Baker
Min Zaman: Expulsion and confiscation of land
Music & singing & arrangement: Trio Jubran (Majaz Album)
Choreographers: Noora Baker and Ruba Zaghmouri
Ghbeishi: Refusal of submission
Music: Folk tunes (from Popular Art Centre library)
Choreographer: Husein Aamar
Thunaiyyeh: Love
Music: Charbel Rohana
Choreographer: Noora Baker
Third Scene: Curfew is imposed (Israeli Occupation)
Nakhwa: Defiance and sacrifice
Music: Saed Al Huseini
Choreographers: Sharaf Dar Zeid, Atta Khattab
Assistant choreographers: Nadia Khattab and Laila Bukhari
Gaza: Repeated images
Composer: Ahmad Qa’bour, arranged and played by Nizar Rohana (Sard Album “Ya
rayeh Sawb bladi”),
Choreographer: Sharaf Dar Zeid
Amal: Hope
Music: The Black Sea, Kotsari (World Percussion Album)
Choreographer: Khaled Qatamesh
Assistant choreographers: Nusair Mansour, Majdi Karalra, Nidal Ka’bi
Fourth Scene: Determination
Hanjaleh: Compelled to live
Music: Omar Farouk
Choreographer: Khaled Qatamesh
Assistant Choreographers: Sharaf Dar Zeid, Nusair Mansour, Husein Aamar, Noora
Baker
Choreography and training by: El-Funoun Dance Troupe
Produced by: El-Funoun Dance Troupe
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