RE | CLAIM:
Ensemble Amedyez and Kalanidhi Dance

This groundbreaking program seeks to examine the question of “who owns culture?” through a two-part music and dance exploration.

Featuring tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe, performing music from their award-winning album “Broken Branches,” and a returning collaboration with Opera Lafayette fan-favorite, Kalanidhi Dance.


Washington, DC Productions

OCTOBER 21, 2024, 7:30p.m.
Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center*

Washington, D.C.
Pre-Show Discussion 6:30p.m. & Post-Show Talkback

October 22 Dupont Underground Ticket Holders:

Due to a delay around artist visas, Opera Lafayette regrets having to cancel the Dupont Underground concert of RE|CLAIM. All ticket holders can exchange their tickets for access to the October 21 performance at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater at 7:30pm. If you have not yet been contacted, please reach out to BoxOffice@operalafayette.org for more information. Thank you.

 

New York City Production

Due to a delay around artist visas, Opera Lafayette regrets having to cancel the New York City concert of RE|CLAIM. Ticket holders who have not heard from our offices, please reach out to BoxOffice@operalafayette.org for full reimbursement.


About the Production

This groundbreaking program seeks to examine the question of “who owns culture?” through a two-part music and dance exploration. 

The first half of the program will feature two extraordinary artists, tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe, performing music from their award-winning album “Broken Branches.” Sulayman and Shibe’s program weaves baroque music of Giulio Caccini and Claudio Monteverdi with traditional Sephardic and Arab/Andalusian works and ballads by contemporary composers and singers from Egypt and Lebanon, and frames the program with songs of Purcell and Britten. 

For the second half of the program, Kalanidhi Dance will present traditional Indian classical dance and ballets from Félicien David’s Lalla Roukh and a surprise finale. 

Before the program (6:30pm), join Dr. Gülru Çakmak, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Associate Professor specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French, English, and Ottoman art, for a fascinating pre-show talk called, Reclaiming the Present through the Past in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul: Osman Hamdi in Three Acts.

And stay after the concert for a talk back with choreographer Anuradha Nehru, and performers Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe , moderated by Dr. Gülru Çakmak.

Featuring:

Karim Sulayman
Sean Shibe

Kalanidhi Dance

*This performance season is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.