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Joint Productions
El-Funoun
believes in building cultural bridges with the world, both to have a healthy
exchange of experience, ideas and techniques in performing arts, and to present
the long-suppressed Palestinian culture before other nations.
“Folk dance
and Hip-hop” 2004
is a collaborative dance project between El-Funoun and a
French/ Algerian hip-hop company named Accrorap,
and
in cooperation with the French cultural center- Ramallah. The performance was a
mix of experimenting with Palestinian folk dance and hip-hop.
“Other
Languages …”
2004 is a collaborative dance and theater experience between El-Funoun, Ashtar,
Theatre Day Productions from Palestine and Les Ballets C de la B from Belgium
culminating a week-long workshop between Palestinian and international artists
in Ramallah.
The
project was to explore “Other Languages” for artists coming from different
countries. The artists came together in search of common threads, common
artistic expressions of shared humanity and a common dream of unfettered
experimentation and artistic dialogue.
“Waiting
Forbidden”
2009 is a performance illustrating the pain and agony stemming from the sense of
displacement, fear, and resistance - a performance about being a Palestinian and
being of Palestinian descent. It is a Palestinian (El-Funoun Dance Troupe)/
Jordanian (Al-Balad Theatre)/ Dutch (Le Grand Cru, Grand Theatre and Dancing on
the Edge Festival) production inspired by the stories of the dancers and the
work of Mona Hatoum, a well-known visual artist of Palestinian descent.
6 Second in Ramallah, 2011
,
6 Seconds in Ramallah is an
international collaboration with dancers, musicians, actors and visual
artists under the direction of Yoshiko Chuma (The School of Hard Knocks
USA/Japan). The project is produced with El Funoun Popular Dance
Troupe, a Palestinian artistic collective formed in 1979 dedicated to
the preservation of Palestinian culture; and will also include members
of Root Culture, an artistic collective based Kamakura, Japan dedicated to
the development of traditional and ontemporary Japanese art forms;
plus dancer/choreographer Ryuji Yamaguchi, a Japanese artist living
and working in Jordan for the past four years. Traditional and
contemporary performing and visual artists
from
Japan also include vocalist/composer Sizzle Ohtaka and
violinist/composer
Aska Kaneko.
Concept/Director/Choreographer: Yoshiko Chuma
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