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.
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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.
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.