Incontro tra la Pizzica e la Dabka

December 6 – 9, 2019

Dar Jacir welcomed the Scuola di Pizzica di San Vito and the World Music Academy to Bethlehem between December 6th through 9th, 2019, in which dancers and musicians from Puglia collaborated with local musicians and dancers for a first encounter and research for a performance in 2020. Initially slated to take place in a public piazza in Bethlehem, we instead performed live on facebook the culmination of our initial workshop days on December 9 th , 2019.
The project is continuing forward with new workshops and performances planned after the pandemic is over.

a project by Emily Jacir and Andrea de Siena

Collaborators: Emily Jacir and Andrea De Sienna, Ludovica Morleo, Fabrizio Piepoli and Vincenzo Gagliani

Participants: Laith Hammad, Mustafa Hammad, Omar Zboun, ali Obeid, Ghadeer Odeh, Basel Ikhmaies, Nadia Sarras, Dima Awad, Tareq Abu Salameh, Ossama Bawardi, Sylvia Truini, Nakhleh Sarras, Baker Qarake, Iyad Sharea’, and Juma Al Dabank.

Under the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in Jerusalem, Dar Yusuf
Nasri Jacir for Art and Research, and the Scuola Di Pizzica di San Vito.



Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research
Al Khalil Road,Bethlehem, West Bank

T: +970 2 274 3257

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