VG/DE is pleased to welcome Lebanese choreographer Bassam Abou Diab for a two-week residency with VG/DE dancers and guest artists for HOME, an international cross-collaborative project with choreographers from five countries. Abou Diab is the fifth choreographer-in-residence for HOME, and will create a 20-minute work on this concept, which will be performed at Green Space’s Take Root series on September 24 & 25 at 8PM.

For more information on the performance and to purchase tickets, please visit https://www.greenspacestudio.org/september2021

Bassam will also teach a Master Class on Tuesday, September 21 from 6-8PM at Green Space. This workshop focuses on a number of rituals used in events, prayers, funerals and burials in Middle East societies. For more information and to purchase your class, please CLICK HERE.

“My view of ‘home’ as an artist coming to the United States is linked to accepting religious, ethnic and cultural differences to generate a feeling of safety and belonging. Home is acceptance, safety, security, and privacy. It is the space in which I feel I can be free, natural and present; the place in which I entrust my secrets and my details. It is the place that gives me the feeling of being an integral part of, the place that I feel comfortable in despite my racial, gender and social differences.” - Bassam Abou Diab