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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

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. 

After the program a talk back with choreographer Anuradha Nehru, and performers Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe will be moderated by Gülru Çakmak, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Associate Professor specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French, English, and Ottoman art.

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.