RCDF 2021 Brochure English

Choreographer: Shaden Abu Elasal , Music: Said Murad , Filming and Editing: I ssa Freij , Dancers: Maria Alkeesh, Rand Taha, Layal Mazzawi, Shahed Jabarin, Nada Srouji, Haya Khourieh, Rima Naser Eddin. Shaden Abu Elasal Shaden Abu Elasal is a Palestinian dancer, teacher, and chore- ographer, living and working in Nazareth, where she has estab- lished educational programs and projects in dance. She is guided by the desire to develop the art of dance with an emphasis on the Arab society, creating a free space for her students to grow, for professional development, and specialized accompaniment in the field of performing arts and dance. She has a bachelor’s degree in dance from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2001). Shaden performed with the Inbal Dance Theater 2001-2005. She is the founder of the Nazareth School of Ballet and Contempo- rary Dance, supported by the Municipality of Nazareth, where she served as director until 2016. In 2012, she established and direct- ed the first international contemporary dance festival in Nazareth. She also established and directed the Aida Contemporary Ballet and Dance School, and Almedina Association. In 2019, she found- ed her own professional dance company Shaden Dance Compa- ny. Her works include On the Road (2017), Rosa (2016), On the Edge of White (2014), in collaboration with artist Manar Zoabi, and Loss (2010). This video dance was filmed in the market of the old city of Naz- areth. The piece marks a place as a space that holds life, memories, hopes, disappointments, aspirations, experiences, moments of anguish and joy. A place brimming with sounds of life, of the ghosts that haunts it, not in the so distant past. A place full of colors, tastes, and smells. A place where the shadows of the bod- ies that lived in it still float, trying to go back to the moment before they froze forever. The work moves along a temporal and spatial axis between the past and the present, dance and life. This Place 11 minutes Shaden Dance Company – Nazareth/Palestine Municipality Theatre/Ramallah City Hall 7:30 pm Tuesday 13 July About the performance Dance Films You can watch the video through Shubbak festival - United Kingdom between June 22nd to 15th July 2021at https://www.shubbak.co.uk/far-from-you-is-near/ In cooperation with :