The second season of Perform Sharjah is returning with an amazing new lineup this year. Eight shows will be presented around Sharjah from Thursday, October 19, 2023, to Sunday, February 11, 2024. Artists from a variety of disciplines and sectors, such as Tao Ye, Essia Jaïbi and Jalila Baccar, Mohit Takalkar, Radouan Mriziga, and others, will be included in this much-awaited programme.
The development project that started in Sharjah thirty years ago to repair, renovate, and restore the city's ancient neighbourhoods will be discussed in the second edition.
Metamorphosis #2:
Metamorphosis #2, written and produced by mother-daughter team Essia Jaïbi and her mother, Tunisian playwright and actress Jalila Baccar, will be the first performance of Perform Sharjah. The event, which will take place in Calligraphy Square, will discuss art, drama, and cultural action across two generations. In addition, Baccar will conduct a master class for working actors, culminating in a public performance at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy.
Date: October 19–October 22
Venue: Square of Calligraphy, Dar Al Nadwa
Rayyane Tabet's The Return:
The distinctive construction of The Flying Saucer will be modified by visual artist Rayyane Tabet for his performance, The Return, which chronicles the finding of a marble sculpture in 1967 in Lebanon.
Dates:
Friday, October 27
Saturday, October 28
Sunday, November 24
Saturday, November 25
Sunday, February 3
Sunday, February 4
Hunkaro by Mohit Takalka:
Using ancient singing and vocal methods, this performance will be co-presented with the Ishara Art Foundation. It will share modern, intertwined stories of human adversity that are bound together by the value of hope.
Dates: Sunday, November 5 and Saturday, November 4
Venue: Square of Calligraphy
Judit Böröcz, Bence György Pálinkás, and Máté Szigeti's "Singing Youth":
This acapella concert charts the historical usage of athletics and the arts as vehicles for political propaganda.
Dates: Friday, January 5 to Saturday, January 6
Venue: Arts Square, Bait Al Serkal
4 by Tao Ye:
Tao Ye, a choreography by Beijing-based TAO Dance Theatre, will feature four bodies that move deliberately and with strength.
Date: Sunday, January 7
Venue: Sharjah Academy of Performing Arts
Berlin's Perhaps All the Dragons:
This performance is an installation in which each audience member is sitting across a screen from a person telling a tale through a video monologue.
Date: Saturday, January 13 to Sunday, February 4
Venue: Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square
Libya By Radouan Mriziga:
In order to investigate the knowledge systems and undiscovered aspects of the Amazigh people's past, choreographer Radouan Mriziga works with dancers.
Date: Saturday, January 27
Venue: Arts Square's Bait Obaid Al Shamsi
Perhaps here by a number of artists:
This performance, which will take place at the Bait Al Serkal Heritage House, will showcase ideas, tales, and aesthetics that represent the imagination via a variety of artistic mediums, including as dance, drama, poetry, literature, and video displays.
Date: Friday, February 9 to Sunday February 11
Venue: Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square
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