The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) will host an exciting lineup of live music events, poetry recitals, and theater performances throughout January and February for its Season 8 spring schedule.
You can find more details on the events below:
Event:Barzakh Festival 2023: CGS – CanzoniereGrecanico Salentino and Lemma
Details: The Barzakh Festival is back for its seventh edition, with four bands performing over two nights that blend cultures, styles, and genres. The festival creates a meeting place of musical streams that crosses diverse cultures. Global-minded musicians reflecting varied influences and identities, bring the contemporary and the traditional together in a boundary-shattering lineup filled with musical revelations. In its seventh, edition, this two-day festival features performances by CGS – CanzoniereGrecanico Salentino (Italy) and Lemma (Algeria). The festival will feature a nightsouk and food truck stations along with various fun family activities for guests to enjoy.
Date:February 3 from 7:30pm
Venue: The East Plaza, The Art Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
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Event:Barzakh Festival 2023 – ADG7 – Ak Dan GwangChilandSahraHalgan
Details: The Barzakh Festival is back for its seventh edition, with four bands performing over two nights that blend cultures, styles, and genres. The festival creates a meeting place of musical streams that crosses diverse cultures. Global-minded musicians reflecting varied influences and identities, bring the contemporary and the traditional together in a boundary-shattering lineup filled with musical revelations. In its seventh, edition, this two-day festival features performances by ADG7 – Ak Dan GwangChil (Korea) and SahraHalgan (Somaliland). The festival will feature a nightsouk and food truck stations along with various fun family activities for guests to enjoy.
Date: February 4 from 7:30pm
Venue: The East Plaza, The Art Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
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Event: Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre: Last Ward
Details: From PaYaa Samar! Dance Theatre’s contemporary performance, Last Ward follows one man’s journey towards death in a hospital room. Surrounded by the sterile mechanisms of modern medicine, the patient reflects on his life, relationships, and connection to place. Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, from Palestine and NY, will make its UAE debut with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef& Arpels.
Date:February 10 at 7:30pm
Venue: The Red Theater, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
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Event:Manifold – A Festival of Musical Diversity – 2023
Details:Manifold – A Festival of Contemporary Music Performance features a creative blend of new and experimental music presented by an eclectic collection of international musicians and accomplished practicing artists from NYUAD’s faculty. The line-up for the fifth edition includes a world premiere of Michael Skillern: Two Hands, a Shell, and a Keyboard, a solo percussion that blurs the line between electronic and acoustic sounds, as well a second show that will be announced at a later date.
Date: February 14 and 15 from 7:30pm
Venue: The Blue Hall, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
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Event:IoannisPotamousis – Rachmaninoff etcPiano Recital
Details: Celebrating the 150th anniversary of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, IoannisPotamousis presents a solo piano program featuring Rachmaninoff’s miniature and larger compositions side by side with composers that inspired him: Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin.
Date:February 27 at 7:30pm
Venue: The Red Theater, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi
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