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Ordinary Madness (Sareyyet Ramallah)

Farah Saleh
010_06 / 29 November 2016
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Farah Saleh

Ordinary Madness (Sareyyet Ramallah)

55 mins 22 secs

 

The relation between humans and nature has been changing enormously during the past two decades. New modern models of administration of the relationship between human beings, and between them and nature have arisen: like massive industrialization, colonial conquests and consumption models, which resulted in new wars, commodification of the world and global warming. What we can call 'world madness'. Ordinary Madness portrays these changes in the Palestinian context, giving an overview of the Palestinian life under modernity rule and asking the audience to reflect on it.

 

Directed and choreographed by: Farah Saleh
In collaboration with the dancers: Adel Mashriky, Majd Hajjaj, Salma Ataya, Yazan Eweidat
Assistant director: Zina Zarour
Composer: Boikutt
Lights by: Muaz Al Jubeh
Trailer by: Sari Hammouri
Produced by: Sareyyet Ramallah
Supported by: Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and A.M Qattan Foundation

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Video Documentary Performance

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Farah Saleh

Farah Saleh is a Palestinian dancer and choreographer active in Palestine, Europe and the U.S. She has studied Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at The University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy and in parallel continued her studies in contemporary dance. She has been dancing and choreographing with Sareyyet Ramallah Dance Company since 2010, for which she recently created Ordinary Madness (2013) and Hana and I (2014). She also took part in and toured internationally with Keffiyeh/made in China (2012) and Badke (2013) co-produced by the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS), A.M Qattan Foundation and Les Ballets C de la B. Saleh has also been teaching dance, coordinating and curating artistic projects since 2010 with the Palestinian Circus School, Sareyyet Ramallah and the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2014 she won the third prize of the Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA) for her installation A Fidayee Son in Moscow and in 2016 she won the dance prize of Palest'In and Out Festival in Paris for the duet La Même. She is currently touring with her latest pieces Free Advice (2015), La Même (2016) Cells of Illegal Education (2016).