Performance

29 August 2026

A people’s opera

10 February 2026

The UAE may be something of a laboratory for change, a still-young country building nationhood and reputation at speed with all the resources it can deploy without the baggage of a complicated past and a complex set of competing ideologies [ … more]

Tasting a new art form? Find Your Eyes at The Arts Center

15 September 2025

With Find Your Eyes, Benji Reid (right) has made a performance that is unlike any you will have seen. Other artists have approached the creative process itself as performance; but no one else has combined photography, choreography and theatre to [ … more]

Sound and vision: Odeya Nini at NYUAD

7 October 2024

“Today I call myself an interdisciplinary artist”, Odeya Nini told magpie. “My practice is one that is an experience of the aural, visual, mental and physical.” She’s bringing that experience to The Arts Center at NYUAD on 9 October, and [ … more]

What’s in the box?

17 April 2024

Tonight (18 April) Abu Dhabi sees the world premiere of PETTEE: storybox, a groundbreaking performance that blurs the lines between stage and audience, dance and theatre. Written and directed by Deepak Unnikrishnan and Karthika Naïr, the piece was commissioned by [ … more]

A people’s opera

Tasting a new art form? Find Your Eyes at The Arts Center

Sound and vision: Odeya Nini at NYUAD

What’s in the box?

Fiq! – a high energy floor-filler

From the UAE to the world: looking for new ways to include performance in art

A cool gig for the cooler evenings: Raul Midon and Alex Cuba