Heart-stopping acrobatics, juggling, clowning, and contortion to live music.

Heart-stopping acrobatics, juggling, clowning, and contortion to live music.

Heart-stopping acrobatics, juggling, clowning, and contortion to live music.

Dubai’s leading contemporary dance company premiere Ansaf, a new work by acclaimed choreographer Alaa Krimed.

A high energy show full of dancing and legendary 80’s rock anthems.

Two pioneers of French hip hop dance reunite to create a new work for the freshest dancers of Casablanca’s vibrant scene.

A Coptic Christian leper, his 10-year-old Nubian Muslim sidekick, and their loyal donkey, leave the confines of their leper colony for the first time.

A choreographic debut, an original score, and ten committed dancers in a student-led project.

African-American social dance: Tap, Jazz, Modern, and Hip-Hop.

An evening of chamber music with leading UAE based virtuosos.

The Middle East’s longest-running poetry open mic night

TEDxNYUAD is part of the TEDx series, a program that brings the spirit of TED’s mission of ideas worth spreading to local communities around the globe.

Five hit Arab short films that made it to the Oscars

An evening of Middle Eastern and World Premieres!

An evening of eclectic journeys

An evening of incredible trio works.

Celebrate stage and silver screen classics. Lebanese-American Alana Barraj performs in a one night only cabaret show.

An evening of artistic excellence presented by the award-winning Omer Quartet

Piano extraordinaire performing his new album, Coming Home.

Egypt’s off-kilter sound of sonic grit and beauty meets funky Turkish psych folk rockers.

Nigeria’s Afrobeat crown prince meets Sudanese retro-pop queen.

Set in Jerusalem, Sarah and Saleem are having an extramarital affair that ignites a dangerous game of deceit between those who hold power and those who don't.

A vibrant multidisciplinary mini festival of cutting-edge electronic music, video art, sound art and improvisation.

A musical exploration of the Arab, Moorish, and North African roots of Afro Latin and Afro Cuban music, and its links to the seafaring music of the Arabian Gulf.

Relive the Palladium era of classic mambo with a Valentines dance starring four-time Grammy-award winner Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.

A cynical divorced man tries to reconcile with his 12-year-old aloof son.

A cycle of choreographic portraits based on McGregor’s genomic sequence, illuminated through dance + live electronic music by JLin

Piano Recital with Ioannis Potamousis and guest Matthew Quayle, featuring works by Mozart, Debussy, Hadjidakis, Ravel, and Liszt.

The Minnesota Experimental City project was a futuristic attempt to solve urban problems by creating a full-size city from scratch in the isolated woods of northern Minnesota.

Sensations of plants! Oryxes going home! Unique human-animal bonds!

How we see the world shapes the world in turn.

Located on the border between Pakistan and China, K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. For many climbers, it is an even greater prize than Everest, with limited routes, a steeper ascent, and a harder push to its summit.

Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families.

Welcome to the world of Short+Sweet. A more creative world – ten-minutes at a time!

A performance walk in the streets and different venues in the city.

1967. The world is alive with change: brimming with reawakened energy, new styles, music and an infectious sense of hope.

This semester's Attitude Recital is bigger and better than ever.

Pianist Yeol Eum Son Performs Beethoven’s Hammerklavier as part of the NYUAD Institute's 10th Anniversary Celebrations.

Poets, songwriters, and musicians celebrate the UAE’s cultural diversity and explore their heritage.

Martial arts-influenced contemporary dance by Korea’s internationally acclaimed, Bereishit Dance Company.

Weave a colorful elastic world and contribute to a vivid and enchanting public play space.

Now in its fifteenth edition, the Al Burda Award is a global platform in the field of Arabic and Islamic culture, capable of broadening cultural exchanges between peoples and civilizations. 

Francesco De Gregori performs the hits that made him one of Italy's most successful artists of all time.

Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train station with sinister intentions.

Based on Sheikh Zayed’s vision for a green desert, a new work featuring two opera singers and 80 school children.

Bring your family and friends for a spectacular show filled with flamenco and chaâbi music, complete with dazzling instrumentalists, dancers, and vocalists.

Bring your family and friends for a spectacular show filled with flamenco and chaâbi music, complete with dazzling instrumentalists, dancers, and vocalists.

A chreomusical work exploring the relationship between bodily movement in dance and its inherent musicality

Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society.

Gatz, the theatrical tour-de-force marathon adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

An audio visual double bill featuring Arab electro-pop and electronic pow wow music, both with powerful visual mixed visuals

A thrilling multimedia collaboration by three pioneers who emerged out of one of the most vibrant and prolific periods in New York’s art world.

Hot off the acclaimed premiere in Washington DC and written and directed by the creators of Nine Parts of Desire. Noura is a beautifully constructed play that speaks to life as an expatriate and questions what "home" means.

Ibrahim, a poet and journalist discovers that he is dying soon from a fatal disease. He confronts his crook partner, Bader, and demands his share to make sure that his wife has a better life after he's gone. Shihab, a professional thief, forced by his boss to do jobs for him in order to pay off a huge debt, plans to quit the crime world to take care of his younger sister. They both meet accidentally and begin to see the world with different perspectives.

NYUAD’s Attitude Dance Society presents their 8th Recital. Join us as we display a variety of dance styles from groups on and off campus ranging from hip hop to ballet. Definitely a must see event!

The Middle East’s longest-running poetry open mic shines a spotlight on some of the UAE’s most talented established and up-and-coming spoken word and performing artists.

Hedi is a young Tunisian man trying to figure out his place in the world. Plagued by indecision, he routinely submits to the wishes of his mother, including agreeing to her desire to place him in an arranged marriage and take a job as a car salesman. Things change, however, when he encounters Rim, an intriguing woman with an independent streak who inspires Hedi to take charge of his own life.

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.

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.

The theme for TEDxNYUAD 2018 is 'Bookmarks'. We all have bookmarks in our lives - they could be events, people, ideas, relationships, challenges or achievements. Our speakers for this edition of the conference will share some of these bookmarks with you with the hope that they may inspire others.

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.

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.

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.

A concert exploring different types of audiovisual relationships between live and pre-recorded music, and live and pre-recorded video.

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.

Scientist-artist panelists discuss their hybrid fields of work.

What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance?

Conversations between the human, animal, and technological worlds.

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.

A Science-Art Exhibition including artist Gallery Talks throughout the festival weekend.

Stories of the precarious nature of health, home, and family.

At age 26, Jane Goodall set out to study chimpanzees in the wild and up close for the first time. Her research challenged the male-dominated scientific consensus of her time and revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

The internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles. Praised by Strad for possessing “maturity beyond its members’ years,” they made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel."

5 bands over 2 days: Batida and 47SOUL on Wednesday, Feb 28 @ 7:30pm |
RAM, The Ex + Fendika, and Al Nuban Folklore Troupe on Thursday, Mar 1 @ 7:30pm

5 bands over 2 days: 47SOUL and Pedro Coquenão / Batida on Wednesday, Feb 28 @ 7:30pm | The Ex + Fendika, RAM, and Al Nuban Folklore Troupe on Thursday, Mar 1 @ 7:30pm

A meditation on music itself – the act of listening to it closely, the experience of feeling it deeply, and the power that it has to change the world.

An eclectic and energetic mix of music from across the globe. For the whole family

An adventurous concert of new works never before heard in the Middle East, featuring the acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, and Tajikistan’s Sirojiddin Juraev, a master of Central Asian long-neck lutes, on dutar.