EMBODY PALESTINE is a dance workshop by Body Watani Dance project that explores how moving our bodies together can be a communal reflection around our relationships to Palestine. Using guided improvised movement, Dabke folk dance and gestural choreographies, we explore strategies of embodiment that bring us closer to Palestine - both the distant land and the one within (all of) us.

This workshop is created for people with any level of experience and movement ability (no dance training necessary). The invitation is specific to those who have been, and continue activating their solidarity with Palestine at the level of the body while in collective, artistic space. In the spirit of the protest, and the poem.

Questions the space holds: How do we move through and with the range of emotions stirred by the genocide in Gaza and collectively hold the weight of grief and rage? How do we dance in ways that spark energy towards resistance, solidarity and liberation? What stories do our bodies’ hold in ancestral criss-crossings and lived experiences that would bring us deeper into solidarity with one another? How can our imagined visions of other possibilities become rehearsals that prepare our bodies for the world we dream of?

This ongoing series is a collaboration between New Arab American Theater Works and Body Watani Dance project.