Left: Yassmine Benchrifa, photo courtesy of the artist, Middle: Mohamed Lamqayssi, photo courtesy of the artist, Right: Sahar Damoni, photo by Tammar Lam

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GPS Chats: Yassmine Benchrifa (Morocco), Sahar Damoni (Palestine), Mohamed Lamqayssi (Morocco)

Yassmine Benchrifa

,

Sahar Damoni

,

Mohamed Lamqayssi

,

Marýa Wethers
6:30pm – 8:00pm
October 23, 2019
FREE
MR, 122CC – Courtyard Studio

150 1st Avenue New York, NY 10009

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  • This is a FREE event.

Please join GPS MENA Artists-in-Residence Yassmine Benchrifa & Mohamed Lamqayssi from Morocco and Sahar Damoni from Palestine as they discuss their creative practices, the arts and culture sectors in their home cities, and regional issues affecting their work. Yassmine & Mohamed have a three-week research residency in NYC from October 14-November 3, 2019 and Sahar is in residence for a month from October 19-November 17, 2019.

Please join us for an informal reception directly following the GPS Chats to meet the artists and toast the launch of the GPS MENA Exchange Program!

GPS Chats offers GPS artists and cultural producers an informal platform to discuss their work in the independent contemporary dance sector within their cultural contexts and the influence of international exchange on the development of their practices.

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Yassmine Benchrifa
Yassmine Benchrifa (22 years old, born in Marrakech, Morocco) has been a Hip-hop dancer since she was 12 years old. She started in the street culture and participated in many (and won some) national competitions. She has taken many workshops fro...
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Sahar Damoni
Sahar Domani is a Palestinian dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Shafa-amer in the Galilee whose body of work deals with the challenges she faces as a woman in an Arab and Palestinian society. Prior to making her own work, she danced ...
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Mohamed Lamqayssi
Mohamed Lamqayssi is a dancer and choreographer who began his training in contemporary dance in 2011 within Cie Anania in Marrakech, Morocco. His career as a dancer included several internships and residencies in Morocco, Europe, and the Middle ...
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Marýa Wethers
Marýa Wethers (she/her) has lived and worked in Lenapehoking (NYC) since 1997. She is the Director of the GPS/Global Practice Sharing program at Movement Research and also works as an Independent Creative Producer & Curator. As a dancer, Mar...
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