A Journey to Jerusalem is a dance production project, inspired by the famous children’s game of “Musical Chairs”, also known as "Trip to Jerusalem". The game (Musical Chairs) is of course a metaphor for conflict over space and the right to own and remain in it. Not only does it represent the struggle to remain and ultimately win it presents to the audience a repetitive shift in power, a cycle of uncertainty and conflict, in which only one person can triumph.

This dance piece uses these metaphors to present and explore the Palestinian experience of conflict over space and the right to remain. we aim to communicate the impact of the Palestinian conflict on the person through our movements. We also touch on the impact of conflict on how people move by looking at the similarities and differences in Palestinian folk dance in different areas experiencing varying forms of warfare and struggle.

The piece is set to simulate the dancers’ lives in a futile world, they are static receivers and the role they play lies in their use of existing circumstances rather than creating their own.
In a globalized, irrationally-accelerated world, the conditions in which dancers are constrained by in Palestine are governed by higher policies that have reached a point of being inapprehensible to ordinary people. In this piece, the two dancers try to mimic this reality by creating a random setting of uncontrolled conditions.

victory after the war. this performance tries to create a dialogue of movements based on these ideas, combined with creating dance scenes between

cooperation and conflict in order to reach the goal, the victory, until the spring.

Concept & Choreographey by: Amir Sabra
Assistant choreographer: Hamza Damra
Dancers and creator: Nowwar Salem, Hoba Hmidan, Maria Dally,
Ahmed Kullab, Yousef Sbaih, Maha Awwad, Rima Baransi,
Hamza Damra, Abdallah Damra
Music composer: Denheim
Music editor: Rafiq Hamawi
Light designing: Mua’z Ju’beh
Production Manager: Abdallah Damra
In collaboration with: The Palestinian Circus School
Funded by: Arab funds for arts and culture, A.M. Qattan Foundation, The French institute in Jerusalem, The Spanish Consulate.
In partnership with: Dyptik dance co., Goethe Institute in Ramallah,
HipHop Flow, CCN Lyon, The Freedom Theater.

08.07.2021 > Ramallah C Dance Festival  (Palestine)
02.06.2021 > A.M. Qattan Foundation (Palestine)
27.02.2021 > Streaming Via A.M. Qattan Foundation (Palestine)
23.08.2020 > The Palestinian Circus School (Palestine)
31.08.2020 > A.M. Qattan Foundation (Palestine)