Body Watani

After the Last Red Sky

Performance Dates:

Friday, Nov. 1st at 7:30pm (Doors 7:00pm, house 7:30pm)

Saturday, Nov. 2nd at 7:30pm (Doors 7:00pm, house 7:30pm)

Sunday, Nov. 3rd at 2:00pm (Doors 1:30pm, house 2:00pm)

Performance Length: 70 minutes, no intermission.

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 re-member 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 community to gather; falling through a work that is transforming and warping traditions of Arabic dances and music into sorrowful, joyful, rageful reclamations of life.

We dedicate this work to GAZA, to the unimaginable loss of Palestinian life, to our community that stands in solidarity with ongoing and forever commitment to PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE, LIBERATION, ALIVENESS.

Learn more about our work at bodywatani.com

Gratitude to receive support from:

After the Last Red Sky was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Body Watani Dance is/was/has been the recipient of a Technical Residency at Keshet Center for the Arts, with lead support from the National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron).

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Accessibility:

● The space is wheelchair accessible. Please email info@southerntheater.org with any questions or requests so our Box Office can assist you. It's important to note that while the theater itself is accessible, our restrooms are presently not. We are working to secure funding to renovate our historic building to better serve our community.

● Parking is limited around the theater, please arrive with enough time to find it.

● Large Print Text and Audio Recordings of text used in the performance are available before and after performances. Reach out to bodywatani@gmail.com in advance.

● Please email bodywatani@gmail.com if they can provide further support for you to engage with their work.