31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-OMAR RAJEH & MAQAMAT/Beytna
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“With good friends… and good food on the board… we may well ask, when shall we live if not now?”
— M. F. K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
Beytna is a unique dance performance centred around the concept of sharing. Four choreographers and four musicians from Lebanon, Korea, Palestine, Belgium, and Togo come together over a banquet of food. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic experiences, they reshape a communal and traditional family reunion into an artistic meeting of dance, music, and cooking.
Witness as they talk, drink, laugh, dance, and eat, transforming this simple gathering into an intricate, captivating performance. Beytna invites you into a world of compassion and friendship. It is a simple invitation into the home of the other — an invitation to the artist’s profession and choreographic statement, as much as it is to the forms and situations of the past.
