Events

In this powerful duet, choreographer and dancer Nacera Belaza, alongside actress Valérie Dréville, explore the body as a vessel for the imagination. L’echo delves into the potential and expressive nature of dance, which they find to be a spoken word...

Abdallah Aldhanhani will uncover multiple historical narratives through the lens of his own family history and the current conditions of the world. In Lawrence, he engages with the secrets and mysteries surrounding the presence of Major Thomas Edward Lawrence in...

On stage, a belly dancer moves and dances to the sound of drums, accompanied by multiple voices and images of women sharing their stories of motherhood. The pelvis, that once hosted life, moves, shakes and undulates—recalling the original vocabulary of...

In loving memory of Ziad Abi Azar There is a small city for sale, overlooking the sea, cheap, made of paper, flammable. Beirut is not just a city; it is an echo of its contradictions: ruin and beauty, memory and...

What Does it Mean to Be a Poet in War Time? is a poem by Hend Jouda, published on her Facebook in October 2023, at the height of the massacres in Gaza. Iconic and immediately viral, it was translated into...

DRONE, written and directed by Andrea Assaf, is a multimedia theatre exploration of the drone as a metaphor for desensitisation to global violence and the effects of remote-control warfare on the human soul. It also centers the quest of moral...

The Care Agreement explores the relationship between the five elements through what Ancient Chinese practices call the controlling and nourishing cycles. In the controlling cycle, wood drains earth, earth absorbs water, water puts out fire, fire melts metal, and metal...

Tá Brón Orm is a metaphoric narrative rooted in the context of historical Ireland. Performed by Ahmed Ghareeb, Sara Gabr, and Shady Abdelrahman, the work expresses a global grief over the loss of language and culture brought about by extreme...

The Light Within explores the notion of inner light. How do we continue to shine in dark times? How can we stand in solidary, in unity, in community? On stage, a dance trio plays with the edges of light and...

In Solħ, Arabic for “reconciliation,” Nancy Mounir presents an immersive audio installation that weaves a rich tapestry of texture, sound, and color, using the threads of archival sources, ambient noises, field recordings, and her own score recorded in an old...

KMs of Resistance is a choreographic and sound performance that explores the primal act of breathing as a means of expressing resistance and inspiring collective action. It draws inspiration from Aïta, a Moroccan oral tradition historically used to convey messages...

Sada (Echo) is an extraordinary sonic experience built from home recordings carefully selected from Ozoz’s personal archive–a collection he has assembled over years, preserving the agencies of both ordinary individuals and renowned figures in diverse fields. Through live, hand-played sound...

The Long Shadow of Alois Brunner interrogates the true story of one of the most wanted Nazi criminals to escape sentencing. Instrumental in the deportation of over 100,000 people to concentration camps and ghettos, Alois Brunner evaded numerous arrest attempts—ultimately...

The artistic project presented at D-CAF features a curated selection of artworks from SEE DJERBA 2024 and SEE DJERBA 2025. These works, centered on the interconnected themes of water, earth, and salt, explore the different ecological, cultural, and symbolic dimensions...

“The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly.” – Etel AdnanThe body symphonic is a performance-concert that observes the body as a site of resistance. The work engages with the body as it journeys...

“I come from a place where just one tile can be a stage.”  The popular Egyptian music style Mahraganat emerged in the early 2000s, in small spaces—underground, at weddings, in taxis and microbuses, amidst crowds and protests—as a powerful expression...

Hollow Embraces is a dance performance that drifts between different emotional states, echoing the contradictions of human nature in its search for salvation and survival. At its core, the work reflects the Palestinian condition—a reality marked by both fracture and...

Set entirely on a bed, Awake is a journey through the in-between and liminality. It captures the fragile threshold between being and non-being, surrender and control, silence and sound, despair and hope. It pushes against the force that seeps into...