November 6, 2015

Ashamu Dance Studio

Farah Saleh’s  open workshop, which was sponsored by the Pembroke Center, identified what we experience and perceive as gendered gestures. As she explained “we try to understand how the specific ways we move while on and off stage are socially constructed. We will do exercises around our relation to our bodies and the bodies of others to investigate how we can consciously start choosing among these gendered gestures, to include them or exclude them from our full range of movements and why.”

Farah Saleh is a Palestinian Choreographer and dancer active in Palestine and Europe. She has studied languages in Italy and in parallel continued her studies in contemporary dance. Saleh was a Visiting Scholar in TAPS, MES and at the Pembroke Center and was in residence at Brown until Spring 2016, presenting a series of workshops and performances in the fall and teaching a full course in the spring.