DANCE PEOPLE 

new creation / nominated for the FEDORA VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Dance Prize 2025

DANCE PEOPLE is a choreographic creation that weaves its composition out of the intimate stories of its audience and the creative diversity of its artists. A question of the purpose of space and how its distribution defines the nature of our relationships and our concepts of equality and hierarchy.

Omar Rajeh and Mia Habis, invite several artists, coming from different cultural and artistic backgrounds, to join them in a collective creative process. The aim is to create an interactive performance evening that open the possibilities of sharing the space with an audience.

It is a meeting of Worlds at the heart of a multidisciplinary artistic force. An approach that brings choreographers, composers, architects, writers, activists, and other professionals to create together, while at the same time involving the audience as active participants, in addition to inviting local artists to join the performance, in each city where it is presented.


A new creation by Omar Rajeh Mia Habis & Maqamat, in collaboration with Peggy Olislaegers, L.E.F.T. Architects, Sam Lecour & Tamanoir Immersive Studio, Mathias Delplanque, Ziad Ahmadie, Fabian Thomé, Clara Cafiero, Charlie Prince, Justine Volo, Nunzio Perricone, Jihun Choi, Elise Bruyère, Guy Hoare, Christian François, Jimmy Elias, Amina Onsy, and Ilitza Georgieva.

A production of Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat

Co-produced by Festival di Spoleto, Edinburgh International Festival. Kunstfest Weimar, Euro-Scene Leipzig, International Dance festival München.

Creative residency at Montpellier Danse, Fabbrica Europa, CN D Lyon

Dance People is a non-conventional performance gathering, with an innovative and deeply engaging artistic approach. It touches on urgent artistic and cultural matters, while exploring the immediate questions of a world in transition.

  • Space, is the central artistic concept of this creation. The distribution of space defines the nature of relationships and it equally defines its purpose. The performance reflects on its own gathering in order to comment on what it conveys or proposes as a value.

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