Trance-Forms: I Am My Language

Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, the French Embassy to the UAE and Institut français present TRANCE-FORMS. This performance is shaped by an extensive theatrical training programme of UAE-based performers by Emirati and French theatre experts. Designed to provide a unique opportunity for talent across the country, this artistic programme will profile a novel generation of theatrical performers in order to pave the way for the emergence of an experimental and innovative theatrical group in the UAE.

Theatrical Performance
The concept behind the theatrical performance is inspired by the cosmopolitan multiple talents, and the common youthful energy observed in the auditions. Similarly, the performance will encapsulate the evolution of Abu Dhabi as a city, and the UAE as a country, through portraying the universal concepts of youth, memory and love through dances, music, poems, life stories, and recitals from both Arabic and French classical literature.

The play will be in French, English and Arabic, with subtitles.

The Protagonists

Marcel Bozonnet - Stage director
The multidisciplinary course is being directed by Marcel Bozonnet, who is the former administrator of the Comédie-Française and the French National School of Dramatic Art. He is currently an associate-artist at the National Dramatic Centre (Theatre of the Union in Limoges city) and is part of the Academy’s teaching staff.

Caroline Marcadé - Choreographer
Caroline Marcadé is a director and professor at the French National School of Dramatic Art, with several published and staged plays to her credit. Since 1985, Marcadé has worked as a choreographer in over 100 theatre and opera shows.

The actors:

Mohammed Aboushabaan, Hagob Aid, Hamza Al Alawi, Yaser Al Neyadi, Dana Al Salem, Jessika Avedikian, Charlis Cunningham, Dana Dajani, Omar El Ghiati, Kanykei Orozoeva, Shereen Saif, Valentina Vela,

The musicians:

Maruan Betawi, Camilla Singh

TRANCE-FORMS is an initiative of the “Emirati-French Cultural Programme: Dialogue with the Louvre Abu Dhabi”, initiated by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, and, in France, by the ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Institut français, in order to celebrate the future opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum.

Doors Open : 7:30 PM

Event Starts : 8:00 PM

Ticket Prices :

VIP - AED 150

Category 1 - AED 100

Students - AED 50