TIMELINE: PERFORMANCE OF SHUHADA ON 9/21/2024 arrive at the theater call Alexandre BALADI WARRIOR ! SPEAK FIERCELY, DANCE FULLY, NOTHING TO LOSE in the dressing room light a candle for شُهَدَاء stare in the mirror, tell self you must hold thisَ الشَّهَادَة ( again ) you are not alone in holding this . the dead, and the living are here too back stage, awaiting the moment to enter, to disrupt this room disrupt passivity
TIMELINE: EVIDENCING-IN-REALTIME / EVIDANCING / CATASTROPHE
I never thought I’d saw, have con fi rmed,
pictures
of terrorists beheading babies
human shields birthing snakes under the hospitals! under schools! DO YOU CONDEMN? DO YOU CONDEMN ? The Only Democracy in the Middle East. It has a right todefend itself. human animals & AMERICA STANDS WITH YOU! DO YOU CONDEMN? DO YOU CONDEMN? سوف نبقى هنا سوف نبقى هنا سوف نبقى هنا سوف نبقى هنا HERE هنا
if you can hear the bombs at least you know you’re still alive if you sleep in the same room at least you’ll die together if I must die, you must live. if I must die, you must live. i met your words a few weeks before they murdered you, my relative Refaat Alareer
FROMTHERIVER إلى البحر من النهر إلى البحر من النهر إلى البحر the word genocide is provocative! your show is cancelledpostponed!? my old ballet teacher is a facebook zionist! bothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsidesbothsi I just want peace . I just want peace .
demand المشاهد SPECTATORS ! BEAR WITNESS ! what is dance during alive-streamed genocide? what is dance during un-ceased fi re?
I just want PEACE ! I just want pieces !
I just want your bodies in pieces . I just want your land in pieces . Bodies in pieces . Land in pieces . World peacepieces . A world in pieces !
there is no reason to perform, unless we disrupt perform to disrupt
every american fl ag is a warning sign i met your words after leaving Palestine and returning to Turtle Island, my relative Damien Dineyazhi
i leave the stage .
into the many arms of beloved relatives living و dead witnesses و martyrs wonder if anything will be
BORN INT HEUSA! I NTHEUSA! UNTIL D E A TH. bidha nafas taweel. your words, my relative Shireen Abu Akleh. they murdered you for gathering evidence. YOU WERE PRESS. THEY WERE PRESS. PRESSED UNDER THE RUBBLE. روح الروح روح الروح روح الروح روح الروح روح الروح روح الروح روح الروح palestine exposed everyone . F ROMSE A TO SHINING SEAAA!
ENOUGH !َ الشَّهَادَة TESTIMONY .
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