EN* Badke is a distortion of dabke, the Palestinian folk dance. The performance starts out from the popular variant: the people’s social, festive dabke. Ten performers go on to confront this locally rooted dance with elements from worldwide pop danceculture. So Badke becomes a double quest: one that conveys the unique Palestinian desire to ‘belong somewhere’, and at the same time the wish to be part of a world beyond that.

Since 2006, les ballets C de la B, KVS and the A.M. Qattan Foundation are working on a series of workshops with young Palestinian performing artists. Last summer dramaturge Hildegard De Vuyst and choreographers Koen Augustijnen and Rosalba Torres Guerrero went to the Occupied Territories to create the dance production Badke. Together with a group of young Palestinians, young autodidacts from various disciplines,the trio explored the possible relations between folkloristic and contemporary dance.

Concept & creation
Koen Augustijnen,
Rosalba Torres Guerrero,
Hildegard De Vuyst
 
Creation & dance
Abdallah (Abud) Damra,
Ashtar Muallem,
Ayman Safiah,
Ameer Sabra,
Hiba Harhash,
Maria Dally,
Samaa Wakeem,
Mohammed, 
Samahneh,
Samer Samahneh,
Maali Maali, 
Ata Khattab,
Fadi Zmorrod,
Salma Attaya,
Yazan Iweidat,
Farah Saleh

Assistant director
Zina Zarour

Soundtrack
Naser Al-Faris
 
Costumes
Britt Angé,
Nicole Petit
 
Light
Ralf Nonn

Sound
Steven Lorie,
Donald Berlanger
 
Co-production
KVS,
Les ballets C de la B,
Qattan Foundation,
Zürcher Theater spektakel,
Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg

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