Poet @thedesertpearl Danabelle Gutierrez visits @SabynJaveri’s @NYUAbuDhabi class Real and Imagined: Women’s Writing Across Worlds and discussed her transition from writing novels to poetry. She also talks about the ongoing conundrum: where is home? She grew up in 3-4 different countries. She started her time as a poetry focusing on Love Poetry. She admits that it was in part a shield to protect herself from being self-revealing.

If you want to preserve your country and your culture, you must protect your language.

Dubai based Egyptian chanter @ZigZagGhanim visits Maya Kesrouany’s @nyuabudhabi Arabic literature class in advance of his performance at #Hekayah tonight. Language is sacred, but not just because it’s the language of religion, but also because of the role it plays in human identity. Language is a living being.

Starting the first @NYUAbuDhabi class visit by @RaviColtrane to two classes combined. Music Technology Fundamentals and What is Music?

Ravi answers the first question.

Music is organized sound. He goes on to talk about his parents @JohnColtrane and Alice Coltrane. They were pioneers in building a home studio in their house when he was a child. John passed away before he could use it, but Alice used it frequently.

In the wake of @NYUAbuDhabi Climate commitment yesterday, listening to the conversation on Creative Placemaking and the tension between cultural tourism vs serving local community via @GCDNet’a Adrian Ellis. Gonna listen to @AlserkalAvenue’s Vilma next

open.spotify.com/episode/1IEsvX… Interesting conversations about what qualifies as quality of live and how the pandemic reshaped behaviors, needs, and wants, patterns of development and redevelopment. And what we need from our art.

This morning, @candocodance Artistic Director Charlotte Darbyshire talks to Lee Singh’s Movement and Meaning class in the @NYUAbuDhabi 1st Year Writing Program. Starts with a brief history of the company and how their decision making process functions. They started with collective leadership. Eventually funding channels led them to more singular leadership. Post-pandemic they are again thinking about collective leadership, and majority led by people with disabilities.

We start a dance workshop with @candocodance drawing from Jeanine Durning’s approach to “non-stopping”: “Start before you’re ready.”

#DanceReflections by @vancleefarpels at @NYUAbuDhabi The next exercise is called “weaving.” It’s basically, we’ll be weaving.

Jeanine gave us some directions. No hesitation. Be unapologetic.

Ready?

Begin.

Another @NYUAbuDhabi class visit. Sam Anderson from the first year writing program leads a conversation with @cromwellojeda for The Politics of Spectacle The conversation starts with a discussion of how Cromwell works as a multi-hyphenate artist - musician, graphic designer, and now he opened a burger joint in Dubai as a “side hustle.”

Movement producer @ian_coss is visiting professor @eisenberg_andy’s Anthropology of Music call in advance of tonight’s premiere. Follow along. Director of Artistic Planning @linseybostwick opens by talking about the deep curricular relationship between artists work as learning and research tools with the @NYUAbuDhabi curriculum.

We’re about to live tweet a class visit from @taniaelk to a collection of @NYUAbuDhabi first year writing classes. One advantage of online learning is that we can bring even more classes together with our visiting artists. Prof Sam Anderson opens with a question about artistic process - how to move from inspiration to production to adapting a work to a new medium

We’re thrilled that Tania El Khoury & Basel Zaraa’s As Far As Isolation Goes sold out its first 2 weeks. Many of my friends still haven’t had a chance to see it, so we’ve just added some more shows. But... 1/4 it moves fast with only one audience member per show, so if you want to see it, we recommend acting quickly.... 2/4

The independent artist is a site of globalization. The climate crisis is a crisis because we have lost our souls.

“One more ticket not two more feet” Creating non-instrumentalized KPI’s. Community well-being vs economic impact.

“The council of good ideas” We want to be a generator for artists and not just a platform

Greeting to everyone at #apam / #asiatopa in Melbourne. We’ll be here all week looking for new relationships and new work. “Inclusivity is a fundamental condition of excellence”

Christopher Myers kalyban of #Cartography leads a creativity workshop at @NYUADArtsCenter with young poets from the moe_uaestudents #Masterpieces program before the final performance at @NYUAbuDhabi. Translations by… instagram.com/p/B8izE_SJttO/… The conversation focuses on cultural memory and the role of poetry in shaping monuments to memories and what we’re trying to hold.

Post performance Q&A with the cast of #Cartography and the students of @acsabudhabi Q: why is a piece like this important?
A: there’s so much talk about migration and the framing and statistics impact policy. We can forget that those stories represent individual people with dreams that we can relate to #heroesjourney

At @NYUAbuDhabi #CoreCurriculum class on Graphic Violence with Cartography’s Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers. Talking about the role of “witnessing” in art. How to avoid pain porn. How to not look at excellence and social engagement as being mutually exclusive. Student question about representation in Kaneza Schaal’s previous piece “Jack &” which included a collaboration with some who was previously incarcerated. Is it important that he had personally experienced that?

Starting #BarzakhFestival day with a workshop on Afro-Cuban music with @ladameblanche13. She talks about her father, musical director of @BuenaVistaSC, her early plans to be a classical flutist (but had no instrument of her own) She became a young mother, and moved to France where she connected with her producer. It would have been easy for her to sing old standards like Besame Mucho

“Departure is an exceptional piece...I felt like I witnessed something transformational.” #fanmail #worldpremiere #contemporaryart #Emirati #theater #theatre #performance

Final shows today at 2pm and 8pm. Tix nyuad-artscenter.org/en_US/events/2… @TheCulturist @sharjahmuseums @SharjahPAA @Manalat80 @SultanAlQassemi @AlserkalAvenue @alserkalcf @AbdelmonemA @JameelArtsCtr @DubaiCulture @TimeOutAbuDhabi @magpieUAE @theatermania @BroadwayWorld @thethirdline @shortandsweet @sharjahart @NouraAlKaabi @Salemalq @nooralsuwaidi

“A significant event...in the development of UAE theatre.”Great interview with Al Raheel | Departure writer @rzreem and director @JoannaSettle in @magpieUAE. Commissioned by @NYUAbuDhabi and @abudhabicf. World premiere this Fri and Sat, Jan 24-25

magpie.ae/woman-of-the-w… It’s certainly an interesting subject area, summarised by @activecultures as “the perspective of Emirati women who live in a world that toggles between English and Arabic, and who navigate expectations and opportunities in the dynamic and quickly changing world of the #UAE”.

Robert Swinston, artistic director of cndcangers visits class: Art and the 1960s with professor Gregor Stemrich. Starts by talkinng abiut going to Woodstock, transferring from Middlebury to nyuniversity, going to… instagram.com/p/B4O5DD1pNnf/… You didn’t audition for Merce. You took a class with him, and either he saw you or he didn’t.