CHÉ: (not) a ballet by Nur Garabli
A dance for two artivists.
CHÉ: (not) a ballet, rooted in Arab-Palestinian memory, moves through earth, energy, and gender, where the body carries what history tried to bury, and silence has a rhythm of its own.
It echoes the struggles of women navigating layers of control: the weight of censorship, the grip of patriarchy, the relentless tension between survival and resistance – a force that shakes the chest, settles in the pelvis, and meets the earth with every stomp.
Through presence that is raw, physical,vocal and unfiltered, the work turns pain into protest and memory into motion, reclaiming space, rewriting identity, and embodying agency.
Concept & Choreography: Nur Garabli
Collaborator & Performer: Misan Miso Samara
Soundscape: Shaher Khanfar
Additional music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - swan lake, op. 20a: lll. Danse Des Cygnes
Production: Al-Saraya theater, Yaffa