Omar Rajeh - Maqamat

[English Below]

Rendez-vous le 3 mars à France Travail Scènes et Images Auvergne‑Rhône‑Alpes pour un temps de présentation et d’échange autour de la prochaine édition du festival Dance People et de la plateforme numérique Citerne.live.

Cette rencontre qui permettra de découvrir l’esprit, le contexte et les perspectives du festival qui fait partie du projet Europe Creative, Shift, se tiendra à Lyon du 19 au 21 juin 2026. Ce sera aussi l’occasion de presenter la plateforme numérique Citerne.live, pensée pour soutenir encore davantage les artistes et la communauté du spectacle vivant.

Ouvert aux artistes, professionnel·le·s de la culture, étudiant·e·s et à toute personne curieuse de découvrir le projet.

📍 41A rue Colin, Villeurbanne
🗓 3 mars 2026
🕙 14h – 16h
📝 Inscription obligatoire via le formulaire
✉️ [email protected]

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Join us on 3 March at France Travail Scènes et Images Auvergne‑Rhône‑Alpes for an afternoon dedicated to the first edition of the festival Dance People and the digital platform Citerne.live.

The session will introduce the vision, context, and opportunities around the festival. The festival is part of a Creative Europe project, Shift, and will take place in Lyon from 19–21 June 2026. The session will also present Citerne.live, designed to further support artists and the performing arts community.

Open to artists, cultural professionals, students, and anyone curious to learn more about the project.

📍 41A rue Colin, Villeurbanne
🗓 3 March 2026
🕙 14:00–16:00
📝 Registration required via the form below
✉️ [email protected]

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=D2CoVeZOtUuPFFNYlTa2303clxVrAb1CnqvYgSyZsypURDlNTkRHQk1ST0NVSDBEMFdJVTVTTVhJWS4u&origin=lprLink&route=shorturl

Join our company!

We’re looking for male & female professional dancers for our international tour of Dance People.

Applicants must be available on the 2026 dates mentioned in the post.

To Apply:
📩 Send your bio + CV + dance video link to [email protected]
⏰ Deadline: Feb 22, 2026

The year begins with movement and provocation!

Omar Rajeh joins the ISPA (International Society for the Performing Arts) Congress in New York as a speaker on Thursday, January 15, sharing reflections on nurturing international partnerships, sustaining creative exchange, and cultivating the courage to keep creating and collaborating in an unpredictable world.

This year’s congress theme, Resilience: A Global Dialogue, speaks to the realities of working across borders amid economic volatility, geopolitical conflict, and growing isolation.

Photo by imuglekisliystas

We wrapped up the year with our final Beytna performances at Teatro della Tosse in Genova. Grateful for the warm audience, the generous theatre team, and the vibrant energy of the city.

Between rehearsals and performances, our time there also crossed paths with a powerful march against injustice, violence, and apartheid. A strong reminder, as the year ends, of what continues to guide us: human values, peace, and generosity.

Beytna arrives in Genova

Beytna travels to Teatro della Tosse in Genova for an experience of hospitality on stage and a celebration of togetherness, where art meets life at the same table.

📍 Teatro della Tosse, Genova
🗓️ 28 - 29 Novemberr 2025
🎟️ https://teatrodellatosse.it/eventi/beytna/

New Creation (2026): Omar Rajeh with the Ballet de l’Opéra de Tunis and Les Épopées

Accompanied by dancers Elise Bruyère and Nunzio Perricone, Omar Rajeh is in Tunis where the creation unfolds. Dido & Aeneas emerges as a journey across time, where every port, train station, and road becomes a space of transition.

Between past and present, between continents and cultures.

Wrapping up 2025 with creation and touring!

Omar Rajeh is now in Tunis, accompanied by dancers Elise Bruyère and Nunzio Perricone, developing the upcoming creation Dido & Aeneas, a new opera by the Ballet de l’Opéra de Tunis and the baroque ensemble Les Épopées, choreographed and directed by Omar Rajeh.

This journey will be followed by the final 2025 performances of Beytna on 28 & 29 November at Teatro della Tosse in Genova, Italy.

And as we close the year, we’re also preparing for Dance People – Le Happening (Lyon, June 2026), the culminating event of our Creative Europe project SHIFT, a large-scale gathering celebrating movement, togetherness, and shared space. The open call for artists and participants is still open till 28th of November 2025.

Discover more and explore all our current updates in the latest newsletter:
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Back from two powerful nights of Dance is not for Us at Hacer Historia(s), Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona!
Thank you for your incredible energy and for sharing this journey with us.
Until next time.

Back at Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona with Dance is not for Us

After performing Beytna at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona, we are thrilled to return to Mercat with Dance is not for Us, presented within Hacer Historia(s) VI festival

This sixth edition of the festival brings together artists who challenge dominant narratives and explore the political and poetic dimensions of dance. It celebrates bodies that resist disappearance and affirm their presence through movement, memory, and imagination.

In this context, Omar Rajeh’s solo stands as a powerful reflection on the body’s right to exist, to move, and to reclaim its space beyond power and hierarchy. His work echoes the festival’s spirit; questioning, daring, and deeply human.

📍 Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
🗓️ 1–2 November 2025
🎟️ https://mercatflors.cat/espectacle/dance-is-not-for-us/



For more info: https://www.omarrajeh.com/works/project-dance-is-not-for-us

دعوة مفتوحة للراقصين والعاملين في المجال الثقافي :

ناس الرقص – الحفل والملتقى،
19–21 حزيران/يونيو 2026
المهرجان الدولي للرقص الذي يُحرّك ويتحوّل
ثلاثة أيام من الرقص والتفكير لإعادة تخيل المساحات والتجارب المشتركة.

انضموا إلينا في ناس الرقص – الحفل والملتقى، المهرجان الختامي لمشروع SHIFT, Creative Europe Project بتموّيل مشترك من الإتحاد الأوروبي، وذلك في مدينة ليون (فرنسا) من 19 إلى 21 حزيران/يونيو 2026.

ناس الرقص – الحدث والملتقى, يدعو الفنانين المصممين الحركيين، الراقصين، الباحثين، المعماريين، الشعراء، فناني السيرك، المفكرين الاجتماعيين وغيرهم من المبدعين، الذين ينخرط عملهم في مفهوم الفضاء والمجتمع والعمل الجماعي، إلى تقدّيم طلباتهم.

الموقع: ليون، فرنسا
نموذج التقديم: https://forms.gle/yK77KDhemnwPrSTw6
الموعد النهائ للتقديم: 28 نوفمبز 2025

يُنظَّم هذا الحدث ضمن إطار مشروع SHIFT – Shaping Harmony, Innovating Forms & Thought، وهو مشروع ممول من الاتحاد الأوروبي، منسّق من قبل Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat (فرنسا)، بالشراكة مع Fondazione Fabbrica Europa (إيطاليا) و Albania Dance Meeting (ألبانيا).

في ليون، يُطوَّر المهرجان بالشراكة مع Les Subs، و CN D Lyon، و Arty Farty، و France Travail Scène et Images.

معًا، لنجعل من الرقص مساحة للقاء والمشاركة.