DIG 2025: Omar Rajeh and Maqamat - Dance is not for Us (Lebanon/France)

Part of Tramway's Dance International Glasgow festival, 9 - 24 May

In this solo performance,  Omar Rajeh, who takes us into his dance and autobiographical universe, and reckons with the fading image of a past that no longer exists.

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Dance is not for Us is a solo creation choreographed and performed by Omar Rajeh, who takes us into his dance and autobiographical universe, looking into the ‘performance’ as an act of gathering and shared experience. The dancing body creates its own rules, its own structure, and its own inspirations, as an act of hope, in opposition to structures of power that diminish such dynamics towards an act of normality and fear.

Omar Rajeh travels back into the past. Alone onstage, he dances and speaks of an intimate past that exists no more; of a fading image, and a deceiving one as well. A past that did not transfer into a future.

The images, the meanings, the feelings, the people, the happy moments, everything is frozen - as if, today, he deals with a World that has no past.

ACCESS
Subtitled
Especially suitable for Sub Pacs (contact Tramway to request one)
Relaxed Performance
Highly Visual - No or Little Text 

Recommended for ages 13+

CREDITS
Concept, Scenography and Choreography Omar Rajeh
Co-Creation Mia Habis
Dramaturgy Peggy Olislaegers
Music Composition Joss Turnbull and Charbel Haber
Lighting design and Technical Director Christian François
Administration Sergio Chianca
Coordination Amina Onsy

With the support of the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes
Special thanks CN D à Lyon, Sima Performing Arts-Alserkal
Avenue, Amadeus - école de danse et de musique

Presented In Association With Take Me Somewhere.

Photo Giuseppe Follacchio