The dance is commonly seen at social gatherings in Palestine. Students for Justice in Palestine hosted the event on March 6. (Photo by Mario Mendez) As part of a week-long string of events protesting ...

A St. Louis Palestinian dance group claims their culture was ‘cancelled’ after being asked to perform at the St. Louis Arts Fair to later find out they were dropped.

The dynamic Mohammed Smahneh, for one, moves fluidly between styles, his dancing a through line that links dabke, a traditional Palestinian folk dance, and breaking. Image. Samaa Wakim, ...

The crowd learns a traditional Yiddish dance at Upshtat Zingerai’s Purim tanzhoyz, held in at Color Club. Credit: Chana Shapiro Friedland grew up in a musical Jewish family but didn’t learn ...

STORY: This is 'Dabke', a traditional Palestinian danceIt's being taught by the Al Hannouneh Society in Jordanas a way to keep the Palestinian heritage aliveLocator: Amman, Jordan(Lujain Abu Ghoush, ...

Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Hildegard De Vuyst recalls the first time a hybrid dance performance based on a traditional ...

Palestinian dance group is ‘canceled’ from Clayton art fair, ... The troupe’s dancers wear colorful, traditional costumes for dabke, a folk dance popular in many Levantine countries, ...

A Kahoot game invited all attendees to test their knowledge on Palestine culture, art, music and dance traditions. The Dabkeh performance was welcomed with cheers and claps to the beat of the drums.

The DC-Dabkeh Troupe, which presents traditional Middle Eastern folk dances, performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The public is invited to attend ...

One Lebanese-Palestinian law student tweeted a photograph of herself in a thobe dancing the traditional Arab folk dance called the dabke and wrote, "count one young Palestinian woman with a lump ...

Betsy Nelson, a sophomore from Newton, Mass., will belly-dance during intermission. Traditionally performed by men and women, dabkeh is a traditional dance in much of the Middle East. It’s the ...

Among the many different folk dance troupes who took part in the 18th annual Ismailia International Festival for Folk Arts, Al-Falouga troupe from Palestine stands out.