REALITY CHECK What choices can one make in free conditions? Reality Check, a technique to trace the fantasy of a dream, leaned on the new interactive performance/research by choreographer Mey Seifan. Dreams seem to share similar expressions during a state of emergency, whether the reality of a dreamer is the Syrian war, Nazi Germany or…
HomeWork When activists are forced to scatter and to connect through their mobile phones and laptops, who among them knows what is really going on? Who possesses the truth and do values change according to where they are? How do fear, imagination, ambition and lies shape the truth? HomeWork is a play about activism versus…
At first glance the viewer may think that the pictorial world of the painter and graphic artist Kamiran Khalil is a direct reaction to and a processing of war experience in his home country Syria. And they are. But they are more. Khalil’s visions examine with his own verve of creation and a sensitive philosophical…
This is how declarations of love sound in Arabic Reading with music: Arabic love poems from the 6th century to the present day. He is as well known in the Arab countries as Goethe in Germany: the Sufi master Ibn-Arabi, who lived in the early 13th century. A sample of his poems can be heard…
Barzakh Art for Culture in cooperation with Literaturhaus Berlin would like to bring contemporary Arab theater to Berlin, with the project [Qa f]: Six selected plays written by young Arabic speaking authors, which discuss social upheavals since the Arab Spring of 2011, will be presented in scenic readings. The year 2011 was a turning point…
