Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival
Audience becomes the performers in ‘OK OK’ and ‘GuruGuru’
Art news
April 9, 2012
Audience becomes the performers in ‘OK OK’ and ‘GuruGuru’
It is difficult to describe exactly what you are doing when you go to one of Ant Hampton’s theater pieces.…
What would you rather be if you ‘weren’t Egyptian’?
Art news
April 5, 2012
What would you rather be if you ‘weren’t Egyptian’?
Many people excitedly followed the clownfish air swimmers' ads when they first came out a few years back. Few expected…
‘I am Not There’ has a strong presence
Art news
April 4, 2012
‘I am Not There’ has a strong presence
A wall of text can be daunting to confront in the context of an art exhibition. It asks the viewer…
Experiments in being human: Contemporary dance at Falaki Theater
Art news
April 2, 2012
Experiments in being human: Contemporary dance at Falaki Theater
The set is spare and other-worldly, consisting of a space-age silver backdrop and a variety of everyday objects; the movements…
Dancing through downtown Cairo
Art news
March 31, 2012
Dancing through downtown Cairo
The Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival kicked off its dance offerings Friday afternoon with a series of performances in Borsa, a…
D-CAF set to take downtown by storm
Art news
March 28, 2012
D-CAF set to take downtown by storm
This Thursday, one of the most ambitious cultural events in Cairo’s recent history will set out to transform downtown Cairo…