In this workshop a brief history and tradition of Samri dance will be taught by Hyde Park Art Center’s Radicle Resident Artist, Farah Salem. 

Highlighting the concept that in Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf culture, the arts were used to fit the needs of communities. In this workshop we will learn the original movements of Samri dance and explore ways to tap into the agency of our own bodies and reconstruct the movements in accordance with the needs of our body and interaction with other participants in the space while respecting and not appropriating this cultural dance.

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