Gotheiner began working on "Dabke" during the summer of 2011, when there were protests in Syria but not a civil war. The Israeli-born choreographer wanted to make a dance about the melding of Arab ...

"The debka, like the dabke, is a very masculine dance," says Gotheiner, who had danced the Israeli version of it many times before. "It was just a Friday night thing to do.

Dabke, literally meaning “to stomp the feet” in Arabic, is a popular folklore line dance native to Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, widely performed on joyous occasions like weddings.

The art form of dabke, which means “stamping of the feet” in Arabic, is a popular folk dance with roots in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The dance, which historically has been used to repair ...

He draws from Kurdish and Turkic music, Iraqi choubi, and the dabke, a broad regional Arab folk style that grew out of a celebratory line dance developed by Levantine builders seeking an efficient ...

Dabke is a popular folk dance performed at Arab weddings and ceremonies. It's like tap dancing, but not using your heels as much. Some call it stomping. But the point is to use the dance to tell a ...

LAWRENCE — Music will pulse and food will abound at Mahjaran, a three-day festival where the sounds, sights and smells embody the feel of a Lebanese village.

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Since coming to campus as an official organization this summer, the University of Minnesota’s Arab Dabke Club (ADC) has started to build membership.. According to its mission statement, the club’s ...