Past Events / Past Festivals

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Broadway Anthems, Movie Classics, & more
An Evening with Alana Barraj
Cabaret Show
Celebrate stage and silver screen classics. Best known for her powerful vocals, Alana Barraj presents a reprise of some of her favorite moments with Abu Dhabi Choral Group (ADCG), original works, and folk & pop hits rounded off with some of her infamous banter.

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CinemaNA - Arab Cinema
Written and Directed by Annemarie Jacir
CinemaNA - Wajib Screening
Presented by Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and NYU Abu Dhabi
Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding, in one month, he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father with delivering the wedding invitations to each guest, in hand, as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.

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Manifold - A Festival of Musical Diversity
Presented by the NYUAD Music Program
Emil Sein & Kiori Kawai: The Gathering
Music, Video and Performing Arts
Saxophonist-clarinetist Emil Sein mixes music, dance, film, and interactive technology in this innovative contemporary concert, developed in collaboration with acclaimed performer/choreographer/installation artist Kiori Kawai.

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Manifold - A Festival of Musical Diversity
Presented by the NYUAD Music Program
Clare Lesser, David Lesser, & Laura Chapple: An Epigram and a Madrigal…
World and Regional Premieres
Soprano Clare Lesser and pianist David Lesser are joined by guest cellist Laura Chapple for a trio recital featuring world and regional premieres of works by Previn, Rorem, Lesser, Tavener, and Wyttenbach.

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Manifold - A Festival of Musical Diversity
Presented by the NYUAD Music Program
Sherine Tohamy & Al Sharq Ensemble
Traditional Arab and International Music
Acclaimed oud player Sherine Tohamy presents her own compositions in addition to a collection of traditional Arab and international musical pieces with some of the finest musicians from Egypt and the Arab world.

Past Event
Manifold - A Festival of Musical Diversity
Presented by the NYUAD Music Program
Carlos Guedes & Laetitia Morais: Music for Visuals. Visuals for Music
Live and Pre-recorded Music and Video
A concert exploring different types of audiovisual relationships between live and pre-recorded music, and live and pre-recorded video.

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The Abu Dhabi Festival Recital Series:
The Bach Project
Arab World Debut
An epic evening of the complete Bach concertos for two, three and four pianos performed by masters and prodigies from the esteemed Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Belgium. Part of The Abu Dhabi Festival Recital Series.

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Middle East Premiere - Co-commissioned by The Arts Center
Ragamala Dance Company - Written in Water - Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy, Co-Artistic Directors
Multidisciplinary work combining dance, music, and projections
Classical bharatanatyam meets digital projection in Written in Water, which brings the Indian board game, Paramapadam (Snakes & Ladders), to vivid life. With a live score that interweaves maqam with Carnatic music, the choreography unfolds upon large-scale projections of original paintings by Chennai-based visual artist Keshav.

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Imagine Science Film Festival
Feature Film
Marjorie Prime
Festival closing
What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance?

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Imagine Science Film Festival
Panel Discussion
Hybrid Futures Panel
Scientist-artist panelists discuss their hybrid fields of work.

Past Event
Imagine Science Film Festival
Short Film Program
Hybrid Creatures
Matinee
Conversations between the human, animal, and technological worlds.

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Imagine Science Film Festival
Feature Documentary
Unrest
When doctors tell Jennifer Brea that her illness is “all in her head” she turn the camera on herself and seeks answers about the mysterious condition commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.