El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
Palestine
Performing Arts
El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe is an independent, non-profit organization that is volunteer-based. It is composed of 228 dancers, singers, musicians and administrative personnel. The members are motivated by the Troupe’s vision, philosophy and objectives, which ensure a strong sense of belonging to the group and increase their productivity and creativity. All these factors, along with their commitment to presenting authentic Palestinian art, have all afforded El-Funoun its current leadership status.
El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
Palestine
Performing Arts
El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe is an independent, non-profit organization that is volunteer-based. It is composed of 228 dancers, singers, musicians and administrative personnel. The members are motivated by the Troupe’s vision, philosophy and objectives, which ensure a strong sense of belonging to the group and increase their productivity and creativity. All these factors, along with their commitment to presenting authentic Palestinian art, have all afforded El-Funoun its current leadership status.
Grantee
Wijhat
Round 01
2022
7th edition of Danse Élargie
Destination: Palestine → France
Itinerary: Majdi will travel together with the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe to compete in the 7th edition of Danse Élargie which will take place at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. The competition opens doors to networking with other artists and directors of theaters and cultural spaces. Participant artists will perform before a live audience and a jury that will select five individuals to take part in an arts residency. Majdi and three dancers and choreographers from El-Funoun will present “Three Dots.” An exploratory work in the process of creation, it fuses the essence folk dance with the dancers’ daily lives in a study of the language of the Palestinian dabka. The contest gives them the chance to develop this project into a staged performance.
Itinerary: Majdi will travel together with the El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe to compete in the 7th edition of Danse Élargie which will take place at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. The competition opens doors to networking with other artists and directors of theaters and cultural spaces. Participant artists will perform before a live audience and a jury that will select five individuals to take part in an arts residency. Majdi and three dancers and choreographers from El-Funoun will present “Three Dots.” An exploratory work in the process of creation, it fuses the essence folk dance with the dancers’ daily lives in a study of the language of the Palestinian dabka. The contest gives them the chance to develop this project into a staged performance.
Grantee
WASL
2018
The Dabkeh And Like Skills Project - a partnership between Ruba Al-Souri representing Wa’ad Youth Organization, and Anas Abu Oun representing El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
The project aims to develop a collaboration program through research and dialogue between El-Funoun Dance Troupe in Palestine and Wa’ad Youth Organization in Jordan. The project involves creating a Dabkeh dance troupe and training a group of trainers to maintain the sustainability of the project, that simultaneously focuses on the Dabkeh dancer as a person who has an impact on his/her community and as a conveyer of a cultural identity through Dabkeh.
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