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A socio-cultural enterprise bringing together movement artists, designers & business experts to create impact in communities through movement & dance.

 

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now on Netflix / glimpses of a future

Warm up to a different tomorrow with this short docuseries of personal reflections expressed through words, movement & dance. 8 episodes created together while being apart from homes around the world - in Lebanon, France, Iran, Jordan and the USA […]

Warm up to a different tomorrow with this short docuseries of personal reflections expressed through words, movement & dance. 8 episodes created together while being apart from homes around the world - in Lebanon, France, Iran, Jordan and the USA. An unprecedented collaboration between writers and creative movers from around the world, during the covid-19 lockdown in spring & summer 2020. From visualization to embodiment, from letters of love to sobering realities, Yaraqa’s Glimpses of a Future gently reminds us that in times of extreme uncertainty, a basic human need re-emerges: that of reimagining the future. Interested in knowing more about the series, check out our website: www.yaraqa.com/glimpses-of-a-future

round 2 closed / Movement Artist Training in Business Acumen

If you are a movement artist looking to develop your idea or project into a revenue-generating product or organization, then MAT /1/ in business acumen is for you […]

 

With the covid-19 lockdown in place across Lebanon, we found our life on hold and our projects postponed. As the days went by, we began feeling we were being given a blank canvas: where neither the present nor the future were clear. So we went to the drawing board and turned to our skills to see how we can contribute. This is what we came up with […] read more

 

some of our projects /

Our first creative lab was meant to kick off on October 19 - two days into the October Revolution in Lebanon. Instinctively agile, we adapted to the changing...

Dance production for a TV ad commissioned by TRACCS for Spinneys - Lebanon on the occasion of the Lebanese Independence Day. choreography by Alice Massabki, and dancers of the Art & Movement - Alice Massabki Dance School.

Hahom, a rhythmic street intervention based on music and dance that took place on Lebanese Independence 22 November 2019 in Downtown Beirut. "During the Leba...

"While We Weave" is a collaborative short dance film produced by Yaraqa Dance Initiative and premiered internationally in Cinedans Amsterdam Film Festival in March 2016. It debuted in Lebanon in the Silk Museum where the whole project initially started.

 

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