Palestinian Innovators: Hanna Tams

Palestinian Innovators: Hanna Tams

On Tuesday, February 1st we met the first guest in our Palestinian Innovators series, Hanna Tams, artistic director and choreographer of Douban Professional Dance.

More about our guest:

Hanna Tams is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher in East Jerusalem. He’s been pursuing dance as a career since around 2002.

You can follow Hanna on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009706054372, LinkedIn https://ps.linkedin.com/in/hanna-tams-861b25119, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tv/CW8r-KPlmCj/?utm_medium=copy_link, and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmQux6-neI_kzisZmirBH3g

And follow Douban Professional Dance on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/douban2012/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPZUUBGYJ1NuWy4tK47KMg

Here are a few videos:

You can find a complete list of Hanna’s videos and reports at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pg4eeyCCVegx4ORAqLBnhghWauZoOYvvGUMrPotq5lE/edit?usp=sharing

From the Presentation/Chat

Hanna’s talk connects well with one of my favorite weeks of The Kumi Calendar, “Art as Resistance”: https://kuminow.com/artasresistance/ I’ll be adding some of his dance videos to our YouTube playlist for the week: https://youtu.be/XQQLsj6l98Q

I can’t speak for all of Israeli artists, of course, but as an American living here, I’m used to artists/art organizations in other countries being very progressive, and thus anti-war and anti-occupation. So I’ve been surprised in Israel to find many of the artists/organizations I’ve met to be very pro-Israel/Zionist. They may be ‘left’ in an Israeli sense, but that still puts them very much to the ‘right’ overall. The arts village of Ein Hod, literally built on a Palestinian village, is a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_Hod

By the way, we have our Kumi Calendar going as usual, even though it isn’t a focus of our meeting here. Our topic this week is “Palestinian Citizens of Israel”. The entry is at https://kuminow.com/palestiniancitizens/

And the latest newsletter is at https://kuminow.com/week-5-palestinian-citizens-of-israel-newsletter/

While the latest Just the Facts is at https://kuminow.com/just-the-facts-palestinian-citizens-of-israel/

And the Kumi Action video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSWcfhhuSM