The Focus Young Arab Choreographers project has been designed with the goal of facilitating mobility, intercultural dialogue and exchange of performative practices among Arab artists and Italian organizations, creating opportunities of meeting, work sessions and presentations of performances.
Between May and October 2017 – within the various artistic projects, festivals, showcases, residencies of the eleven organizations belonging to the network – the Focus presented six young choreographers coming from countries of the Mediterranean basin: Sharaf Dar Zaid (Palestine), Bassam Abou Diab (Lebanon), Hamdi Dridi (Tunisia), Mounir Saeed (Egypt), Jadd Tank (Lebanon), Guy Nader (Lebanon).
The young artists, selected from the BIPOD-Beirut International Platform of Dance, and in collaboration with Beirut Maqamat Dance Theater, MIBACT and MAEC, have toured Italy from Turin to Matera, presenting their shows, sharing their poetics and deepen within artistic residencies their own researches.

Within the project Fabbrica Europa presented:

Bassam Abou Diab | Hamdi Dridi | Jacopo Jenna
Exchange of practices
May 28 | Palazzina Ex Fabbri – Ex Scuderie Granducali, Florence

Hamdi Dridi
Tu meur(s) de terre
May 30 | Palazzina Ex Fabbri – Ex Scuderie Granducali, Florence

Bassam Abou Diab
Under the Flesh
May 30 | Palazzina Ex Fabbri – Ex Scuderie Granducali, Florence

Focus Young Arab Choreographers is a project supported by Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo in collaboration with ACS – Abruzzo Circuito Spettacolo (Festival Corpografie) – Pescara, Anghiari Dance Hub – Anghiari (AR), Armunia (Festival Inequilibrio) – Castiglioncello (LI), Associazione Basilicata 1799 (Città delle 100 scale Festival) – Potenza e Matera, Associazione Danza Urbana (Festival Danza Urbana) – Bologna, Associazione Culturale Mosaico Danza (Festival Interplay) – Torino, Associazione Culturale Il Triangolo Scaleno (Festival Teatri di Vetro) – Roma, C.L.A.P.Spettacolodalvivo (La Strada Festival Internazionale) – Brescia, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa (Festival Fabbrica Europa) – Firenze, Inteatro Festival / Marche Teatro – Ancona/Polverigi, La Mama Umbria International – Spoleto (PG)