Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing Arts has announced its upcoming festival program, to run August 20-26 at The Wild Project.
The festival’s theater events will feature Greek director/performer Olga Pozeli in a solo performance exploring the limits of political corruption; Lebanese director Lina Abiad with performer Amahl Kouri in I.D., a new performance piece engaging with the theme of transgender identities in the Mediterranean; and Sabine Choucair and Chantal Mailhac in Whispered Tales, a performance with traditional music and songs and Lebanese coffee.
Dance highlights will include Turkish choreographer Korhan Basaran’s nw work Rau; Israeli choreographers and dancers Rachel Erdos/Ido Tadmor and Noa Dar’s And Mr. and Arnica; and Mancopy Dance Company from Denmark and their newest collaboration with dancers from Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine.
Other events will include staged readings by M. Karimi-Hakak and K. Fahmy and a free screening of The Glass Wall, a documentary by Iranian-American filmmaker and theater artist Mahmood Karimi-Hakak on the Palestine-Israel cultural divide.
