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The ArteEast/ Watermill Center Residency June 12, 2013
In 2011, The Watermill Center and ArteEast partnered to launch an annual residency supporting the development of a new work by artists based in the Middle East and North Africa. Artists, art practitioners and institutions based or active in the Middle East and North Africa are invited to apply for the opportunity to participate in a residency program at Watermill Center.
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World Nomads Tunisia Cinema Tuesdays: Tunisia in Film
May 7 - 28, 2013
ArteEast is proud to collaborate with the French Institute Alliance Française for a third year running on their annual World Nomads Festival. This year, the festival focuses on Tunisa and we are pleased to co-sponsor a month of Tunisian films curated by Dora Bouchoucha, one of Tunisia’s most successful female film producers.
The films featured in the series explore the place of women in Tunisian society before and after the fall of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. With award-winning features, gripping shorts, and insightful documentaries, this series provides an important window into one of the world’s most watched countries post-revolution.
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All That's Left to You: Palestinian Writers in Conversation 2013 PEN World Voices Festival Event
May 4, 2013
ArteEast is pleased to present the first panel of Palestinian writers at the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival, All That’s Left to You: Palestinian Writers in Conversation. With the generous support of The Lannan Foundation, The New School for Social Research, and Open Society Foundation.
For the first time in the Festival’s history, PEN brings together a panel of leading Palestinian writers to take their place in the global literary community. From Palestine and from the diaspora, they will share their work, experiences, and visions, revealing how a literature is both imagined and created under occupation, siege, and exile.
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Oberhausen Film Festival Market Screenings
May 3, 2013
ArteEast was one of two international organizations along with SALT (Turkey) invited to curate a program for the Market Screenings of the 59th iteration of the International Short Film Festival at Oberhausen (May 2-7, 2013) . This program was curated by Mohammad Shawky Hassan, filmmaker and director of film programs at ArteEast.
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The Life and Legacy of Farideh Lashai April 25, 2013
ArteEast is proud to present a conversation between Shirin Neshat & Hamid Dabashi (moderated by Mahnaz Fancy) on celebrated Iranian artist Farideh Lashai (1944 - 2013). With closing remarks by Leila Heller.
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Nothing to Declare Dictaphone Group Residency at the Watermill Center
April 19, 2013
Nothing to Declare is a research-based lecture performance that explores borders within Lebanon, those between Lebanon and its neighbors, and across the Arab world. Their journey starts at a derelict train station in Beirut, and continues as each one of us sets off on a different trip following one of the three train tracks used to connect Lebanese cities with each other and with other Arab cities. Their travels include visits to sites along the train tracks and abandoned stations to discover past and present uses of these spaces as playgrounds, makeshift housing, torture chambers and military bases.
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Art As Resistance A panel discussion by representatives from the Jenin Freedom Theatre in Palestine
April 14, 2013
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Feature Films DOX BOX Syria Global Day 2013
March 25 - April 8, 2013
Syria Global Day 2013 is comprised of two segments. The first is a series of six short films created by a new generation of Syrian filmmakers and selected for their cinematic ambition and unique narratives voices. This affords a rare glimpse of Syrian life that focuses on inter-faith relationships, coming of age and the daily struggles of coping with a society under siege.
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A Citizen With A Moving Camera - YouTube Thematic Compilations DOX BOX Syria Global Day 2013
March 25 - April 8, 2013
As the audience of DOX BOX started making creative documentary in the past two years, DOX BOX Global Day celebrates them, and present its tribute to the Syrian citizen-filmmakers, through 6 thematic compilations of outstanding YouTube clips from Syria.
The six themes are: Stories, In Search of the Truth, Dialogue, The Moment, Letters, and Self Portrait - Leaks.
Each thematic compilation runs between twenty to thirty minutes.
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DOX BOX Syria Global Day 2013 March 25 - April 8, 2013
In honor of DOX BOX’s Syria Global Day 2013, ArteEast, a New York-based international arts organization dedicated to supporting the MENA region art sector is collaborating with IDFA, DokLeipzig, CPH:DOX and DocAlliance to bring the festivalto a global audience online for one week.
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TransDance Film Series December 11, 2012
TransDance is Egypt’s only international festival for contemporary dance, choreography and performance. It is set within transdisciplinary contexts and invites artists to question the mobility of both practice and medium. TransDance is produced by HaRaKa for Dance Development and Research, and celebrates its fifth edition this year with its largest program ever in Cairo, and includes satellite events in Alexandria, Berlin, Brussels, Marseilles, Minia and New York City. The festival hosts an international program of performances, talks, workshops, panels, installations and film screenings
The New York edition of the festival presents human bodies as documents of reality that tell stories of conflict and transformation all the while tracing histories as live and embodied moments of time. The series features talks with dance scholars Sawsan Gad and Magda Saleh, as well as a performance by artist Magda Saleh and a selection of films.
For full listing of films click here.
TransDance New York Program
December 4th and December 5th Lecture Series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
December 6th Performance at Center for Performance Research
December 11th Film Screenings at Residency Unlimited
ArteEast is pleased to co-sponsor the New York edition of TransDance with HaRaKa, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Center for Performance Research and Residency Unlimited.
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TransDance Performance Program "Copy, Repeat" Performance by Mariam Sadik
December 6, 2012
The artist presents us with a series of short performances under the title Copy, Repeat, working together with the audience on cyclical repetitions, in an attempt to document an event by using repetition, reproduction and transmission as communication strategies. The performance series presents work that is shown for the first time during TransDance festival, as well as excerpts from previous 'performance experiments' that Mariam Sadik has developed in previous contexts. The artist casts the audience as a collaborator to think through whether repeating expands an event and preserves it, or it destroys it and over-writes it. The performance deals with the body as a site of political discourse, skin as a document and tackles forgetfulness, remembrance and collective memories.
Program is 30 minutes, no break
Mariam Sadik: As a painter, designer and performance artist, Mariam Sadik works with her own body and her objects of interest through the same level of engagement. She studied art at the American University in Cairo, Sadik works with mixed media and embodied practice to create works that question the materiality of an artistic medium, the power-hierarchy in contemporary artistic practices from aesthetics viewpoint, and trends in artistic practices. Mariam Sadik's work with glass and metal manifests strategies that she herself embodies in her performance work, dealing with context, transformativity, functionality, branding and the identity of substance/matter. Gender and social class are key elements in her work, with a strong focus on the reality of being an Egyptian woman now.
TransDance New York Program
December 4th and December 5th Lecture Series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
December 6th Performance at Center for Performance Research
December 11th Film Screenings at Residency Unlimited
ArteEast is pleased to co-sponsor the New York edition of TransDance with HaRaKa, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Center for Performance Research and Residency Unlimited.
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TransDance Lectures Egypt Dances: A Presentation by Dr. Magda Saleh
December 5, 2012
In this talk at the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Magda Saleh speaks about her anthropologic film classic Egypt Dances revisits the Egyptian dance history from quasi-animist rituals, to religious dances and traditional or modern forms of movement. The film was produced in the 1970’s, and since then is considered an important document on a country’s movement heritage, a country with an ever-changing corporeal history. Dr. Saleh present parts of the film, with discussions on the different dance forms the film presents.
A graduate of the Bolshoi Academy of Ballet in Moscow and the Higher Institute of Ballet at the Academy of Arts of Egypt; a B.A. in English Language and Literature, Ain Shams University, Cairo; an M.A., the University of California at Los Angeles; and a Ph.D. from the New York University School of Education, Magda Saleh was Prima Ballerina of the Russian-trained Cairo Ballet Company established in 1966, Senior Professor and Dean of the Higher Institute of Ballet and Founding Director of the New Cairo opera House – National Cultural Center.
The recipient of scholarships, awards, honors and distinctions, including the Order of Merit from President Gamal Abdel Nasser, she has been a member of the Conseil International de la Danse and the International Theater Institute, UNESCO, of the jury of international ballet competitions, the National Specialized Councils, Egypt, among other national and international associations. Currently a resident of New York, and married to Egyptologist Jack Josephson, she remains dedicated to promoting cultural exchange and furthering mutual understanding between the USA, Egypt and other nations of the Middle East.
TransDance New York Program
December 4th and December 5th Lecture Series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
December 6th Performance at Center for Performance Research
December 11th Film Screenings at Residency Unlimited
Programs are subject to change and cancellation. Please telephone 212-642-0142 or visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms to confirm performance schedules. Unauthorized recording of ANY type is strictly prohibited.
ArteEast is pleased to co-sponsor the New York edition of TransDance with HaRaKa, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Center for Performance Research and Residency Unlimited.
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TransDance Lectures Body Documents from 1960’s Reda Troupe Dance with Sawsan Gad
December 4, 2012
In this talk at the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Sawsan Gad explores the body as a site of documentation of race, gender and class in the work of the 1960’s famous Egyptian Dance company The Reda Troupe, whose work was influenced by the rise of the nationalist and Arabist discourse set within a Nasser regime. The work of the troupe choreographically traced pre-existing dances from centuries ago, and distilled it through reenactments that are staged (or presented in film) defining an epistemological break through displaced choreographies. Their ‘body documents’ stand as an activated document, in constant friction with the context that surrounds them in Egypt, through the present. Sawsan Gad’s lecture is accompanied by screenings of dance sequences from the Reda Troupe repertoire.
Sawsan Gad works as a mapper in the field of disaster recovery. She also co-founded, HarassMap, a mapping tool that aims to change the social tolerance of sexual harassment in Egypt. Through her work, she deals with questions related to behaviour, perception and the will of masses from a grassroot, often gender-based, but always individualistic perspective. With HaRaKa, she has acted as an Associate Researcher, presenting research on the market control of beauty perception as well as curators' control of artist selection; both conditioning a culture that they indeed wish to challenge. Her work has been presented as lectures, text, and in live performance contexts.
December 4th and December 5th Lecture Series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
December 6th Performance at Center for Performance Research
December 11th Film Screenings at Residency Unlimited
ArteEast is pleased to co-sponsor the New York edition of TransDance with HaRaKa, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Center for Performance Research and Residency Unlimited.
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TransDance Egypt’s only international festival for contemporary dance, choreography and performance
December 4 - 11, 2012
ArteEast is pleased to co-sponsor the New York edition of TransDance with HaRaKa, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Center for Performance Research and Residency Unlimited.
TransDance is Egypt’s only international festival for contemporary dance, choreography and performance. It is set within transdisciplinary contexts and invites artists to question the mobility of both practice and medium. TransDance is produced by HaRaKa for Dance Development and Research, and celebrates its fifth edition this year with its largest program ever in Cairo, and includes satellite events in Alexandria, Berlin, Brussels, Marseilles, Minia and New York City. The festival hosts an international program of performances, talks, workshops, panels, installations and film screenings
The New York edition of the festival presents human bodies as documents of reality that tell stories of conflict and transformation all the while tracing histories as live and embodied moments of time. The series features talks with dance scholars Sawsan Gad and Magda Saleh, as well as a performance by artist Magda Saleh as well as a selection of films.
TransDance 2012 focuses on documentation and generates discourse via body-based practices. The festival is curated by Adham Hafez, in collaboration with dramaturge Ismail Fayed and managed by Ahmad Moez, the festival takes place in theatres, galleries, lecture halls, public buses, gardens, work studios and kitchens between three continents.
TransDance New York Program
December 4th and December 5th Lecture Series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
December 6th Performance at Center for Performance Research
December 11th Film Screenings at Residency Unlimited
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