Free Advice, an endearing, insightful interactive solo performance by Palestinian dancer and choreographer, Farah Saleh, explores the relationship between artists and society. The dance solo will be presented for one night only, March 23, 7:30pm at New York Live Arts.
"In Free Advice, I looked for interactions with people to investigate my relationship - as an artist - with the society I live in. I went to the streets of Ramallah, Vienna and Budapest with a 'Free Advice' sign to open a dialogue with passersby," says Saleh describing the piece. "These dialogues made me understand that people's concerns are collective, but seem to them quite individual. In Palestine, people mainly asked for advice related to social pressure..., in Europe, people were looking for ways to be happy and find a better job. I brought all these collective concerns to the studio and transformed them into an interactive dance performance...," she ads.
Farah Saleh has been dancing and choreographing with Sareyyet Ramallah
Dance Company, and took part in and toured internationally with Keffiyeh/made in China (2012) and Badke (2013). She has also been teaching dance and and curating artistic projects with the Palestinian Circus School, Sareyyet Ramallah and the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2014 she won the third prize of the Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA) for her installation A Fidayee Son in Moscow.
Free Advice is part of Live Ideas Festival 2016: MENA Future click
here for the full schedule.
