About Joudeh and his story, Lauren Wingenroth writes the following in Dance Magazine. They are words that serve as a good introduction to Dance & Peace.
It’s easy to forget how lucky we are to live in a place where we can safely pursue our dance training. For dancers in war zones or in places where dance is thought of as unlawful or inappropriate, a dance career can be nearly impossible. But for Ahmad Joudeh – a Syrian dancer who’s had to overcome both of these circumstances – there’s hope.
Dance & Peace is a follow-up to Roozbeh Kaboly’s 2016 documentary film about Joudeh, Dance or Die, the trailer for which is below.
Ahmad Joudeh: From Syria to the Netherlands, Dancing for Peace – David Mead (Seeing Dance, December 10, 2016).
"It’s Dance or Die": The Ballet Dancer Forbidden to Perform by Islamic State – Renate van der Zee (The Guardian, March 13, 2017).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts
• Quote of the Day
• Desert Dancer: A Story That Matters
• The Purpose of Art
• Art and Resistance
• The Potential of Art and the Limits of Orthodoxy to Connect Us to the Sacred
• The Premise of All Forms of Dance
• The Art of Dancing as the Supreme Symbol of the Spiritual Life
• Not Whether We Dance, But How
• The Dancer and the Dance
• The Soul of a Dancer
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