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With the participation of future neighbouring museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi together with Louvre Abu Dhabi presentIbrahim El-Salahi: The Cosmopolitan Modernist\u00a0on 18 April at 7 pm in the museum’s Auditorium. The talk explores one of the forefathers of Modern Art in Sudan and a key contributor to African Modernism. El-Salahi’s artwork is currently on display at Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Challenging Modernity gallery on loan from Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. His work highlights the artist’s defining contributions to the history of art as well as his current practice. Salah Hassan, Professor at Cornell University, discusses El-Salahi’s career and the 2012\u201313 retrospective he curated for the Sharjah Art Museum and the Tate Modern.<\/p>\n
Via Sophiatown combines\u00a0pantsula\u00a0dancing, a sort of non-acrobatic but high-speed hip-hop, tap-dancing, stepping and gumboot accompanied by three live jazz musicians. By calling out, whistling, stamping feet and clapping, the audience will participate in this celebration full of dynamism. With beat of internationally renowned South African music, like Dorothy Masuka or Miriam Makeba, the show will feature couples dancing the\u00a0tsaba-tsaba\u00a0or\u00a0kofifi, the ancestor of the\u00a0pantsula. The company Via Katlehong Dance, takes its name from the township of Katlehong in East Rand, one of the disadvantaged areas where the urban\u00a0pantsula\u00a0culture was born. Sustained by a strong community identity, Via Katlehong Dance has an educational, cultural and social mission aimed at young South Africans. Like hip-hop in the United States and Europe,\u00a0pantsula\u00a0is a lifestyle involving fashion, music, dance, body language and speech.<\/p>\n
Concluding the season on 2-3 May is a concert of popular Arab throwback music with a modern twist by Lebanese hip-hop enthusiast Rayess Bek and visual artist La Mirza in\u00a0Love and Revenge. One mixes Arab popular songs while the other puts into movement extracts of Cairo golden age studios.<\/p>\n
For more information on tours, workshops and for tickets to the upcoming public programme, visitwww.louvreabudhabi.ae. For talks, entry is part of your general admission ticket.<\/p>\n
Season Programme:<\/p>\n
Ibrahim El-Salahi: The Cosmopolitan Modernist<\/p>\n
Date: 18 April<\/p>\n
Time: 7 pm<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Auditorium<\/p>\n
Via Sophiatown<\/p>\n
Date: 19-20 April<\/p>\n
Time:\u00a08 pm<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Auditorium Plaza<\/p>\n
Love and Revenge<\/p>\n
Date: 2-3 May<\/p>\n
Time:\u00a08 pm<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0Auditorium Plaza<\/p>\n
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