The Manifestations of Embroidery in Folkloric Songs and Dabka
Family Day
El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe and Al-Zinnar Women Ensemble
Friday, June 29| 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Join us to learn about the performative aspects of Palestinian embroidery through a series of dance performances by both male and female dancers from the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe. The performances are inspired by the troupe’s latest performance entitled Ṭallat. The first part of the dance will be held in the Museum’s Labour of Love exhibition space with the aim of creating live performative interaction between the dancers and the exhibited embroidered dress “forest”. The dancers will then continue outdoors, where they will narrate through physical movement the lives of Palestinian women and their customs of practise in the villages of Historic Palestine. The family day will also include a performance by Al-Zinnar Women Ensemble from the Palestinian town Assira Al Shamalia. The women will present Palestinian folkloric songs in a unique performative manner which will combine the donning of Palestinian traditional clothes, singing, and dancing, in order to evoke how traditional clothes can be read as documents that carry layers and layers of women's lives over time.
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