After the Last Red Sky is a dance performance and ritual gathering to hold the weight of—and imagine healing for—the Palestinian sky. A sky where violence hovers and falls on Palestinian bodies. A sky carrying a folk belief of a whale eating the lunar-eclipsing moon. A blood-red sky. In this work, we ask what it means to dig down into the rubble of decades of attacks on Palestinian Aliveness to remember our sky. To move through grief and rage together in community, so we don’t collapse under its weight.
This new work by Body Watani Dance project is created by a trio of Palestinian dancers and musicians: Leila Awadallah, Noelle Awadallah, and Tarek Abdelqadar. They engage in an evening-length embodied scream at the sky that demands change from below it—calling on the community to gather and fall through a work that is transforming and warping traditions of Arabic dances and music into sorrowful, joyful, rageful reclamations of life.
Friday, November 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 3 at 2:00pm
Tickets: $15-$45
We dedicate this work to Gaza, to the unimaginable loss of Palestinian life, and to our community that stands in solidarity with an ongoing and forever commitment to Palestinian resistance, liberation, and aliveness.
Body Watani Dance is the recipient of NEFA’s National Dance Project for this work, as well as funds from MSAB, MRAC, Art Matters, and the Cedar Tree Project. You too can choose to donate and support us with a tax-deductible contribution.