creations

Omar Rajeh founded Maqamat in 2002 as a contemproary dance company and his ambition was to create a space for innovation, experimentation and continuous development of new ideas and concepts of dance and 'the body'.

He early realized that there is no separation between what is needed on an artistic and cultural level from the need to change regarding the political and scoial realities. The company was engaged and totally immersed in the artistic and creative as ‘statments’ for direct political and social productivity, creativity, modernization, and free-expression.

  • Beytna | 2016

  • Watadour | 2014

  • Zaafaran | 2015

  • Dance is not for Us | 2023

  • Minute Made | 2022

  • The Odor of Elephants after the rain | 2021

  • Four four Disturbance | 2014

  • #minaret | 2018

  • The Assassination of Omar Rajeh | 2009

  • Hibr | 2014

  • It's May or May Be or May Never | 2011

  • Walking in Wrinkles | 2021

  • Guerre au Balcon | 2003

  • Concerto 13 second movement | 2007

  • UNION | 2021

  • Mental Masturbation | 2003

  • Concerto 13 | 2006

  • That Part of Heaven | 2013

  • Beyrouth Jaune | 2002

“[Omar Rajeh] makes contemporary dance a proposal of force in present day Lebanon” - Thomas Hahn, DANSER, 2018

upcoming tour dates

Beytna

8,9,10,11 March 2024 | WOMADelaide, Adelaide, Australia

31 May 2024 | Malraux, Scène Nationale Chambéry Savoie, France

11 & 12 October 2024 | Torino Danza, Torino, Italy

3 December 2024 | BALLET PRELJOCAJ  PAVILLON NOIR Centre Chorégraphique National, France

5 December 2024 | Théâtre Durance, Scène Nationale Château-Arnoux, France

7 December 2024 | Chateauvallon-Liberté Scène Nationale Toulon, France.

31 January 2025 | The Arts Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE

21 & 22 February 2025 | Festival de Liège, Belgium

7 & 8 March 2025 | Belgrade International Dance Festival, Serbia


Dance Is not for Us

12 January 2024 | Orbita|Spellbound-Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza, Rome, Italy

17 March 2024 | Osterfestival, Tyrol, Austria

25 & 26 May 2024 | Fabrik Potsdam, Germany

20 April 2024 | BIPOD, Beirut International Platform of Dance, Beirut, Lebanon

3 & 4 August 2024 | Festival Boulevard, Den-Bosch, the Netherlands

6 October 2024 | Mess Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia

8 October 2024 | Fabbrica Europa, Florence, Italy

20 October 2024 | Plesni Teatr Ljubljana, Slovenia

9 & 10 November 2024 | festival euro-scene Leipzig, Germany

12 November 2024 | Albania Dance Meeting, Tirana, Albania

November 2024 | Reykjavik Dance Festival, Iceland

9 March 2025 | Belgrade International Dance Festival, Serbia


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