Arabic Trip Clip 8/8 - Ramallah

Join choreographer Giulia Mureddu (Italian, but based in Amsterdam) and her contemporary dance company on their tour through 4 Arab Countries: Beirut in Lebanon, Damascus in Syria, Amman in Jordan and Ramallah in Palestina in april 2009, where we did a dance doublebill performance at contemporary dance festivals in each city ('Escaping Grey' and 'Mighty MatPogo').

The company members are:

Giulia Mureddu - choreography (and dance in Beirut)
Robin Tunca - dramaturgy
Roland van Ulden - lightdesign and technique
Vincent van Roon - technique
MatPogo - music
Amaranta Velarde Gonzàles - dance
Goran Turnšek - dance
Keyna Nara - dance
Katerina Dietzóva - dance
Hilde Elbers - dance


Clip 8 takes us to Ramallah on the Westbank, which I just call Palestina. People really try to keep their lives going on, despite of all misery they have been going through. Walking through Ramallah on april 24 2009 gives us a very peacefull feeling. Of course, coming close to the wall, the checkpoints, the elements that distroyed so much of this beautiful community, gives a feeling of a claustrofobia, which gets clear in the videomontage. But then, despite of that situation, life and work (in our case: performing) go on, and that's good. So this is my urgent call for everybody who has the posibility: GO THERE! Let's keep on exchanging our cultures with the people who cannot come to us to do that. What on earth is more important than that?? Let us never give up hope for peace AND freedom for all of us.

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• Middle
• East
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• Arabic
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• Lebanon
• Syria
• Jordan
• Westbank
• Palestina
• Beirut
• Damascus
• Amman
• Ramallah
• Giulia
• Mureddu
• modern
• contemporary
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• festival
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• music