This conference brings together artists, curators, academics, and practitioners to consider critical questions around performance practice across the MENASA region. The symposium features a public program of talks, panel discussions, workshops, and performances that unpack, extend, and liberate contemporary performance practice towards frameworks that better serve our contexts and concerns. This program is conceived, produced, and presented collaboratively by 421, Alserkal Arts Foundation and Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Registration for Day 1 | February 18 | 421 | Abu Dhabi
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Registration for Day 2 | February 19 | Alserkal Arts Foundation | Dubai
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This conference brings together artists, curators, academics, and practitioners to consider critical questions around performance practice across the MENASA region. The symposium features a public program of talks, panel discussions, workshops, and performances that unpack, extend, and liberate contemporary performance practice towards frameworks that better serve our contexts and concerns. This program is conceived, produced, and presented collaboratively by 421, Alserkal Arts Foundation and Arts and Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Registration for Day 1 | February 18 | 421 | Abu Dhabi
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Registration for Day 2 | February 19 | Alserkal Arts Foundation | Dubai
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- Joanna Settle, Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Social Impact, and Arts Professor of Theater, NYUAD
- Mays Albaik, Program Manager, Warehouse421
- Nada Raza, Director, Alserkal Arts Foundation
In collaboration with

