Farah Saleh. Balfour Repairs (2025–2045) | Activity
As part of the Project to Black Planet Exhibition, MACBA IS Co-Organizing Balfour Repairs (2025–2045)to Piece by Palestinian Choreographer Farah Saleh included in Making History (IES) VIin collaboration with The powerful. This Performance Draws on Archives, Memories and Future Imaginaries in Order to Retink The British Colonial Legacy In Palestine, Raising Questions About Distament, Justice and Historical Responsibility.
The Balfour Repairs (2025–2045) Project, is a Compelling Performance Lecture by Palestinian Dancer, Choreographer and Scholar Farah Saleh That invited you to export and confront the united kingdom’s colonial legacy in Palestine. Through in Blend of History, Fiction and Fantasy, Saleh examines The Role of Arthur James Balfour – Former UK Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Influential Academic Figure – In Shaping Police That Denied Palestinian Polytical Rights. Using Elements of Critical Fabulization and Afrofuturism, This Thought-Provoking Work Brings Archival Materials-Videos, Photos and Documents-Into Dialogue with Imaged Futures.
Join us in 2045 As a Member of the Repairs Committee as we reflected on a fiction Apology Letter Issued by the UK Government in 2025 Promising Repairs to the Palestinian People. What Does Acountability Look Like? What mid justice mean?
Step Into The Future and Be Part of the Conversation.
Creative Team:
– Concept and choreography: Farah Saleh
– Film and Sound Design: Lucas Chih-Peng
– Research: Nicola Perugini
– Dancers: Nadia Khattab, Jamal bajali
– Rehearsal Support: Luke leather
– Graphic Design: Michaela Pointon
– Music: Kim moore, Wasef Jawhariya
– Creative Producer: Helen Mcintosh
– Lighting Design: Emma Jones
– PRO -ASSOCIATE: Joy Parkinson
– Production Manager: End
Supported by Iash, Culture &, Made in scotland, Scottish Government
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Farah Saleh is a Palestinian Dancer, Choreographer and Scholar Based in Scotland. She has studied linguistic and cultural media in Italy and in parallel continued inherited in contemporary dance. Since 2010 She Took Part in Local and International Projects with Sareyyet Ramallah Dance Company (Palestine), The Royal Flemish Theater and Les Ballets C de la B (Belgium), Mancopy Dance Company (Denmark/Lebanon), Siljehom/Christophersen (Norway) and Candoco Dance Company (UK). Saleh Has Alo Been Teaching Dance, Coordinating and Curating Artistic Projects, Including the Sareyyet Ramallah Summer Dance School, Which She Co-Founded in 2016. In 2014 She Won the Third Prize of the Young Artist of the Year Award (Yaya) Organized by Qattan Foundation in Palestine for Her installation To fosee are in moscow and in 2016 The Dance Prize of Palest’in and Out Festival in Paris for the Duet The même. She was an associate artist at dance base in edinburgh 2017-2021 and in 2023 she earned inher practice-based phd from edinburgh college of art. In 2024, Saleh Started at Lectresshy in Global Majority Performance at Theater Studies at Glasgow University.
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From NOVIMBER 6, 2025 TO APRIL 6, 2026
Project to Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panhafrica
