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As part of the Abu Dhabi Art Performing Arts programme, Durub Al Tawaya brings to Abu Dhabi performances produced in collaboration with local and international arts organizations. The programme will continue beyond Abu Dhabi Art in November through 2015.
This year Durub Al Tawaya is inspired by the philosophical themes and the dramatical structure of Hayy Bin Yaqzan, a 12th century novel written by Andalusian scientist and philosopher Ibn Tufail. The story illustrates the complexity of humans’ relationship to nature and to others. Ibn Tufail puts forward an early interpretation of materialism that questions human dependency on objects for the sake of life’s comforts.
Durub Al Tawaya presents That Night Follows Day, a rehearsed reading written by Tim Etchells, the artistic director of the acclaimed company Forced Entertainment, performed by sixteen children and young adults from Abu Dhabi; a sound performance using cars with super modified stereo systems by Joe Namy; an interactive performance created by Cevdet Erek mimicking the sound of the sea featuring Jana Saleh; and the Middle East premiere of Paper Music, a cine-concert with video by world-renowned visual artist William Kentridge and music by Philip Miller.
Durub Al Tawaya refers to the Emirati term tawaya; points of respite where desert travellers found underground water springs. These unchanging loci were marked along paths or durub. In classical Arabic, tawaya refers to layers of meaning, ideas and values that are revealed as they unfold.
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