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DIG 2025: Omar Rajeh and Maqamat - Dance is not for Us (Lebanon/France)

DIG 2025: Omar Rajeh and Maqamat - Dance is not for Us (Lebanon/France)
Part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May In this solo performance, Omar Rajeh, who takes us into his dance and autobiographical universe, and reckons with the fading image of a past that no longer exists. DOUBLE BILL TICKET Pay just £20/£16 to see this show and Two Destination Language - Bottoms on the same night. BOOK HERE Dance is not for Us is a solo creation choreographed and performed by Omar Rajeh, who takes us into his dance and autobiographical universe, looking into the ‘performance’ as an act of gathering and shared experience. The dancing body creates its own rules, its own structure, and its own inspirations, as an act of hope, in opposition to structures of power that diminish such dynamics towards an act of normality and fear. Omar Rajeh travels back into the past. Alone onstage, he dances and speaks of an intimate past that exists no more; of a fading image, and a deceiving one as well. A past that did not transfer into a future. The images, the meanings, the feelings, the people, the happy moments, everything is frozen - as if, today, he deals with a World that has no past. ACCESS Subtitled Especially suitable for Sub Pacs (contact Tramway to request one) Relaxed Performance Highly Visual - No or Little Text Recommended for ages 13+ CREDITS Concept, Scenography and Choreography Omar Rajeh Co-Creation Mia Habis Dramaturgy Peggy Olislaegers Music Composition Joss Turnbull and Charbel Haber Lighting design and Technical Director Christian François Administration Sergio Chianca Coordination Amina Onsy With the support of the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Special thanks CN D à Lyon, Sima Performing Arts-Alserkal Avenue, Amadeus - école de danse et de musique Presented In Association With Take Me Somewhere. Photo Giuseppe Follacchio

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