Balalaika - A Performance by Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School
Date: Fridays 4 & 11 September
Time: 8 pm @ ElGenaina Theater
Al Azhar Park - Salah Salem Rd. – Darassa

Ticket price 30 EGP - excluding Al Azhar park entrance ticket
For ticket information, please call Tickets Marche on: 16826

Join us in an evening of pure fun, a performance that mixes acrobatics with jazz, rope walking with juggling, singing with trapeze stunts, all aptly performed by the wonderful Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School students. This new show is for adults and children, for happy people and those walking with heavy hearts, busy people and those who have plenty of time, sophisticated intellectuals and no worry 
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Teachers and trainers:

1- Brass and wind: Mohamed Youssef and Ahmed Ismail 
2- Percussion: Ahmed Ali and Shams Salem
3- Circus: Adel El Bahdaly and Hussein Abou El Lail
4- Singing: Bilal El Sheikh

Photographs used in the show are by the artist Hamdy Reda

General Supervision and production: Khawla Abu Saada

Artistic Supervision: Basma El Husseiny

About DAAS

The show will be performed by students from Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School, aged between 8 and 18. The school was launched in March 2011 in order to train the young children of the area to perform circus arts and play percussion and brass instruments. 
The purpose is to help children from Cairo’s Darb Al Ahmar district gain new career prospect by training them in circus arts and music, opening up prospects for employment in the future in the arts, music and other creative fields. The project also seeks to raise the awareness of the inhabitants of this district on the value of art and its role in community development.
The school troupe has presented a variety of performance including one designed by STOMP in June 2013, Darbaka in February 2014, the musical Lost and Found in February 2014, which was performed in Cairo and Beirut. They have also participated in the children theatre festival in Kuwait and in three rounds of Cairo International Circus Festival (CirCairo), and performed at El Genaina Theater, Falaky Theater and Beit ElSehemy.

Visit our page on FB Al Darb Al Ahmar Arts School - مدرسة الدرب الأحمر للفنون فنون الدرب الأحمر

A very important disclaimer: Balalaika, the musical instrument, is not used in the show :)