HALA

club monaco ‘What moves you’ campaign

improvisations

Unstable STructures

Jonah Bokaer’s 41st Museum Creation, Arter Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2022.
Choreography: Jonah Bokaer with the dancers. Music: Soundwalk Collective

vesica piscis | threeasfour

threeASFOUR Adi Gil, Angela Donhauser, Gabi Asfour
Directed by Jessica Mitrani and Alex Czetwertynski
Choreography: Jonah Bokaer
XR Virtual Production Content: Alex Czetwertynski
Director of Photography: Charles Billot
Producer: John Morgan
Creative Consultant: Victoria Bartlett
Music: Georgia

REVERSE perspective, russia

ReformersFest 2021: Pushkin Museum, Moscow & Jaani Kirik, St. Petersburg.
Choreography: Jonah Bokaer
Composed: Polina Nazaykinskaya
Musical Performance: Nemtsova & Vitaly Vatulya
Dance Performance: Jonah Bokaer, Nadia Khayrallah, and Hala Shah
Production: Momentum Artists

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signs + symbols, NYC. Choreography by Jonah Bokaer with the dancers.

jehan sadat: in three dimensions

Choreography by Jonah Bokaer with the dancers. Durational work created as a response to portrayals of orientalism in art world, featuring costumes designed by Austin Scarlett.
Premiered at Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.

behind blue sky

For the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, an entirely BIPOC-identified ensemble of drama therapists and theatre artists examine its legacy. Filmed throughout NYC, Behind Blue Sky weaves personal and fictionalized narratives based on the stories of the ensemble as well as those gathered from people living and working in NYC at the time.
Ensemble: Chantal Georges, Sara Kliger, Jonathan Howie, Carlos Rodriguez-Perez, Hala Shah, Allyn Sitjar, Jennifer Tam.
Production Team: Armand Volkas, Jesse Bonnell, Lynn Hodeib, Ellen Smittle, Gabrielle Fidis, Samantha Artese

Calling: a dance with faith

Premiere: La Mama Moves! Dance Festival
Documentary dance theater piece exploring the lives of two Muslim women as they wrestle with their call to dance and their call to faith. Expanding upon Ping Chong + Company’s traditional interview-based theater process of talking with local individuals, who are not performers, about questions of culture, identity and belonging.