After the Last Red Sky is a dance performance and ritual gathering to hold the weight of—and imagine healing for—the Palestinian sky. A sky where violence hovers and falls on Palestinian bodies. A sky carrying a folk belief of a whale eating the lunar-eclipsing moon. A blood-red sky. In this work, we ask what it means to dig down into the rubble of decades of attacks on Palestinian Aliveness to remember our sky. To move through grief and rage together in community, so we don’t collapse under its weight.
This new work is created by a trio of Palestinian dancers and musicians: Leila Awadallah, Noelle Awadallah, and Tarek Abdelqadar. We dedicate this work to Gaza, to the unimaginable loss of Palestinian life, and to our community that stands in solidarity with an ongoing and forever commitment to Palestinian resistance, liberation, and aliveness.
Friday, November 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 2 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 3 at 2:00pm – Masks required
Tickets: $15-$45
After the Last Red Sky is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund; the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund; Body Watani Dance is/was/has been the recipient of a Technical Residency at Keshet Center for the Arts, with lead support from the National Center for Choreography-Akron (NCCAkron).