noelle awadallahنوال
body watani
Body Watani Dance project is a space to research, investigate and create performances from an embodied relation with ‘watan’ or homeland inside our bodies. Our work is held by two Palestinian sisters, Leila and Noelle Awadallah; daughters of a Palestinian refugee lineage, born on stolen land on Turtle Island.
We center Palestine in our lives and artistry. It is our compass, and point of entry into relations with peoples and lands. The knowledge we cultivate flows from ancestral digs, present realities, and future visions of liberation that carry our dancing bodies across terrains of grief, rage, sumud, and love for Palestinian Aliveness. Our work holds our relatives who face ongoing ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and a persistent brutal occupation by the israeli state.
To read more about the work my sister and I do through Body Watani, click here.
We center Palestine in our lives and artistry. It is our compass, and point of entry into relations with peoples and lands. The knowledge we cultivate flows from ancestral digs, present realities, and future visions of liberation that carry our dancing bodies across terrains of grief, rage, sumud, and love for Palestinian Aliveness. Our work holds our relatives who face ongoing ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and a persistent brutal occupation by the israeli state.
To read more about the work my sister and I do through Body Watani, click here.