Visiting Tarab

“Visiting Tarab” by Tarek Atoui


Location: Stage 37, 508 W 37st Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York, NY

Tickets: $30/$24 for Performa Members, Students, and Seniors at

http://tarekatoui.eventbrite.com/

Performa and Sharjah Art Foundation Announces “Visiting Tarab”, organized by Sound Artist Tarek Atoui to Premiere in the U.S. on November 5, 2011, for One Night Only, as a Commission of the Internationally Acclaimed New York Biennial, Performa 11

Organized by Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui, Visiting Tarab will incorporate elements of the world’s largest collection of Classical Arab music as interpreted by 16 musicians and sound artists ranging in expertise from hip hop to electronic and contemporary music. Atoui invited sixteen musicians and sound artists from different origins and practices to Beirut to explore the world’s largest and most extensive collection of Classical Arab music.

The result of this research will be the performance in New York City and will feature the artist as well as Anti-Pop Consortium, Uriel Barthelemi, John Butcher, Mira Calix, Lukas Ligeti, Robert A.A. Lowe, Raz Mesinai, Ikue Mori, Sara Parkins, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, DJ Spooky, Zafer Tawil and Georges Ziadeh. The one-night-only US performance will be a continuous building of energies, intensities, and textures inspired by the structure and rules of “Tarab,” transforming the New York venue into a space of enchantment and ecstasy.