Cook (Denmark)

Type: Theatre
Duration: 65 minutes
Language: Arabic
By:  Jesper Pedersen and Nassim Soleimanpour
**Arab World Premiere

“The audience hangs on

  • Sunday 9 October - 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Monday 10 October - 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Traces, Discourse To The African Nations (Belgium/Burkina faso)

Type: Theatre
Language: French with Arabic & English Subtitles
Duration: 60 minutes
**Arab World Premiere

“Clear, accurate and powerful. […] Étienne

  • Tuesday 11 October - 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Still in Tangier and not allowed to travel, Therese (Austria)

Type: Theater
By: Brigitte Walk
Language: German with Arabic & English Subtitles
Duration: 80 Minutes
**Arab World Premiere
Born in

  • Thursday 13 October - 8:00 PM to 9:20 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Friday 14 October - 8:00 PM to 9:20 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Mandala (Hungary)

Type: Interactive Performance
By: Dávid Somló
Language: English with Arabic translation
Duration: 60 Minutes
**Arab World Premiere

The piece

  • Friday 14 October - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM - Cinema Radio
  • Friday 14 October - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Cinema Radio
  • Friday 14 October - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM - Cinema Radio
  • Saturday 15 October - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM - Cinema Radio
  • Saturday 15 October - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Cinema Radio
  • Saturday 15 October - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM - Cinema Radio

Beyond Dance – Cosmogony (Switzerland)

Type: Contemporary Dance
Duration: 32 minutes
By: Gilles Jobin
**Arab World Premiere 

This year, D-CAF will present two films

  • Friday 21 October - 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM - Tahrir Cultural Center

Long Play Cairo (France)

Type: Contemporary Dance
By: Adam Shaalan & Alexandre Roccoli
Duration: 180 minutes
**Arab World Premiere

“Suspended, circular and hypnotic, this

  • Saturday 22 October - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Startup Haus
  • Sunday 23 October - 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Startup Haus

Anchoring (Egypt) – AAF

Type: Contemporary Dance
Duration: 50 minutes

This piece attempts to reclaim the body as a subject of political and social

  • Thursday 27 October - 7:00 PM to 7:50 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Friday 28 October - 7:00 PM to 7:50 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Tarakeeb (France/Egypt) – AAF

Type: Shadow Puppetry
By: Compagnie Hékau
Duration: 40 minutes
**Arab World Premiere 

“Tarakeeb exudes an indefinable nostalgia; a homesickness

  • Thursday 27 October - 8:00 PM to 8:40 PM - Falaki Theater
  • Friday 28 October - 8:00 PM to 8:40 PM - Falaki Theater

Losing it (Palestine) – AAF

Type: Dance performance
By: Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King
Duration: 40 minutes

A quest to find balance amidst the

  • Thursday 27 October - 8:30 PM to 9:10 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Friday 28 October - 8:30 PM to 9:10 PM - Rawabet Art Space

NO MERCY (Egypt) – AAF

Type: Dance
Created by: Nasa4Nasa
Duration: 40 minutes

Nasa4Nasa will lure you in, disarm you, and in the process unravel

  • Thursday 27 October - 10:00 PM to 10:40 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Friday 28 October - 10:00 PM to 10:40 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Dance Double Bill (Nafaq 4/Womb) – AAF

Nafaq 4: Extending Further (Egypt)
Type: Contemporary Dance
By & with: Amina Abouelghar & Hanin Tarek
Duration: 20 minutes
**Arab

  • Saturday 29 October - 7:00 PM to 7:20 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Sunday 30 October - 7:00 PM to 7:20 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Dance Double Bill (Nafaq 4/Womb) – AAF

Womb (Egypt) – AAF
Type: Dance
By: Shaymaa Shoukry & Ahmed Saleh
Duration: 50 minutes

“We were in water… doing without

  • Saturday 29 October - 8:00 PM to 8:50 PM - Rawabet Art Space
  • Sunday 30 October - 8:00 PM to 8:50 PM - Rawabet Art Space

Untitled 14KM (Morocco)- AAF

Type: Performance, Dance and Documentary Theatre
Duration: 50 mins
Language: English with Arabic Subtitles

**Arab World Premiere

Beyond a shared

  • Saturday 29 October - 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM - Falaki Theatre
  • Sunday 30 October - 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM - Falaki Theatre

Beyond Locality: The Thatcher Effect

Type: Interactive Theatre Perfromance
BY: Abdalla Daif and Lucy Ellinson
Language: English and Arabic
Duration: 60 minutes
**World Premiere

“We

  • Saturday 29 October - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM - Kodak Passageway
  • Sunday 30 October - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM - Kodak Passageway

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