Images Remembered -2009

El Funoun 2009 dance performance constitute a new artistic and exquisite expression employing innovative ideas and dance styles combined with inherited traditional techniques. Together they reflect the various important eras of our recent history. The performance travels into the Palestinian memory portraying symbolic and important recurrent images from the Ottoman and British colonial times as well as the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine. The dance symbolizes the will of the Palestinian people in keeping the memory alive despite all schemes to annihilate it.

“Images Remembered” was executed by a team of choreographers who reflected their artistic capacities inspired from Palestinian, Arab and world’s dance and music employing, for the first time, multi-media projections in El-Funoun production. 

 

Producer: El-Funoun Dance Troupe
Choreography: Noora Baker, Khaled Qatamesh, Hussein A’amar, Sharaf Dar Zayed, Atta Khattab 
Assistant Choreographers: Laila Bukhari, Nassir Mansour, Nadia Khattab, Ruba Zaghmouri, Majdi Karakra, NidalKaabi
Music: Combination of Arab and international music compiled from the audio collection of El-Funoun

Costumes: Ghasoub Sarhan