This week, the Jordanian version of the classical ballet “Coppélia” makes its debut on the main theatre at The Royal Cultural Center. This comic ballet which premiered in Paris 138 years ago will be performed by 75 dancers from Misk group and the center’s dance school, aging between 10 and 25 years, choreographed by the Jordanian Rania Qamhawi, to the music of the French Léo Delibes. The show will run Wednesday to Saturday, at 7:00 pm (ticket: 25 JDs for adults, 7 JDs for children).
Columbia University Middle East Research Center will host a talk by The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, on U.S. policy and the Middle East crisis. Ignatius will discuss his own views, developed over 35 years of covering the Middle East and the CIA. He has taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (HKS) as an adjunct lecturer, and is a fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at HKS (Wednesday, 6:30 pm).
As the first part of its “Film and Architecture” series, Darat Al Funoon will screen the Cann Festival award winning Italian 1962 film “L’Eclisse“, by Michelangelo Antonioni. The series will explore the role of architecture as an agent of action and its impact on both narrative and theme (Saturday, 4:00 pm).
Also in Darat Al Funoon this week, the photo exhibition “Next to Here” will open it’s door this Tuesday. The exhibition includes works by photographers from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates. These photographic works explore pictorial landscapes of cities and nature, and paint portraits of human beings. The event will be followed by a talk by curator Constanze Wicke (6:00 pm).
Two other exhibition will open in Amman this week: “Letters from Levant”, which includes the works of four Levantine artists (Monday, 6:00 pm), and “Art for a cause, made with hope“, which will host the artworks of five Jordanian artists, and aims to help a cancer patient.
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