Badke(remix)

za 8 aug 2026 t/m zo 9 aug 2026

Amir Sabra & Ata Khatab - laGeste | Stereo48

Een groep dansers met rode hoofddoeken vormt een menselijke piramide.

Kurt Van der Elst

Een groep dansers voert een energieke choreografie uit op een podium.

Kurt Van der Elst

In 2013, three Belgian choreographers created 'Badke', a performance featuring ten Palestinian dancers, rooted in the Palestinian folk dance dabke. More than ten years later, Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab — dancers in the original production — take over the direction. They rework the piece, mixing in hip-hop, capoeira and contemporary dance, and determine what their folk dance has to say today. The performance becomes 'Badke(remix)'.

Location

Theater aan de Parade/Casinozaal

Duration

75 min.

Entrance fee

€ 25

Price Friend

€ 22,50

Genre

Dans

Date

za 8 aug 2026 t/m zo 9 aug 2026

Language

Er wordt niet gesproken

Toegankelijkheid

suitable for cognitive and/or intellectual disability, without (spoken) language

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Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab take the traditional folk dance, as performed at weddings and other celebrations, as their starting point and transform it. The Palestinian dancers bring a contemporary version of this traditional dance: a merging of joy, expression and togetherness and they literally reverse the letters, dabke becomes 'Badke(remix)'.

The music that belongs to it is the mijwiz, an energetic style of dabke music. In 'Badke(remix)', an electronic version of this musical form is used. At moments, sirens, drones and crying children break through. The reality in which these dancers live flickers briefly into the celebration. But they do not stop. That is the core of 'Badke(remix)': we are here and we will not be driven away. We dance until we drop.

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About the artist

laGeste is a Ghent-based company that creates productions in which the body takes centre stage: raw, visual and unsettling. The company works with a changing roster of artists on ambitious projects and invests in young and driven talent. Their practice is radically inclusive: intergenerational, intercultural, and with space for artists and dancers with disabilities.

"'Badke(remix)' is not a performance you watch calmly and analyse afterwards. Those who watch feel the pulse, the repetition, the breathlessness. It is hard not to move along."

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Credits

Choreography Amir Sabra en Ata Khatab
Dancers & creation Abdallah Damra, Bresa Ayub, Dima Zahran, Hamza Damra, Marah Haj, Mohammed Al Tayeh, Rebecca Kaoud, Rima Baransi, Samer Raya, Shahd Jabarin, Jassi Murad (understudy)
Soundtrack Nasser Al-Fares, bewerking door Sam Serruys
Artistic assistant Abdallah Damra
Sound Hanne Nuyttens
Light Ine Van Bortel
Based on Badke 2013 van Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Hildegard De Vuyst
Spread Morgan Van Kerrebrouck | laGeste
Photo Kurt Van der Elst

Production laGeste | Stereo48
Co-production KVS | Viernulvier
In collaboration with Siamese Cie (Gloed vzw)
With thanks to alle hosts in Gent en Brussel Anne De Smet, Tine Maes, Griet Hoet, Ruth Bossier, Veerle en Bruno Campens, Wim De Temmerman, Sarah Hauspie, Philippe Brunain, Yves De Bruyckere, Iris De Groote, 10+11 Guest House, Sophie Warnant, Jacqueline Bollen, Tom Viane, Joris van Winckel, Catherine Richards, Sylvia Boulaert, Danielle Rousseau, Camille Matthys, Sandra Sara Raes Oklobdzija, Julie De Clercq en Ehsan Hemat
With support of Stad Gent, de Vlaamse Overheid, de Tax Shelter maatregel van de Belgische Federale Overheid via Flanders Tax Shelter

Badke(remix)

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