عايشين

– Can’t Complain

 

June 11 & 13 2026

Masrah Al Madina
Doors open at 7:30 PM
(For the best viewing experience, we recommend avoiding seats located at the far left or far right sides of the theater.)

 

Description:

عايشين (Aayshin) - Can’t Complain is a contemporary dance work that explores the fragile, evolving relationship we have with the idea of home. Through a series of choreographic worlds, the performance navigates survival, ambition, inner conflict, memory, exhaustion, and the search for belonging; not only within physical spaces, but within the body and mind themselves.

As crises become routine and instability turns familiar, the work questions what happens when chaos becomes comforting, and rest begins to feel foreign. Moving between fragmentation and softness, tension and release, عايشين reflects on the ways we adapt, endure, disconnect, and continue even when “home” no longer feels stable, tangible, or certain.

Built through overlapping choreographic layers and a shifting scaffolding landscape, the work brings together different perspectives that intersect, collapse, rebuild, and coexist; much like the unstable foundations we continue to call home.

Credits:

Conceived, directed, produced, and choreographed by Al Sarab Dance Company
Supported by the British Council - Lebanon

With works by: Myriam Barakat, Rana Balbont-Ibrahim, Jimmy Bechara, Laetitia Hakim, and Sarah Fadel

 

Dancers: Al Sarab Dance Company members
Angelina El Hachem

Dia Chahine

Diva Chahine

Marc Abdallah

Maria Sahyoun

Mary Jane Juvelekian

Myriam Barakat

Tia Semaan

Yvana Makdessy

Set Design: Myriam Barakat

Set by: Ramz Atallah

Photos by Tarek Haddad

Graphic design by Laetitia Hakim

Lighting design: Yvana Makdessy

Special Thanks:
Marc Mouarkesh

British Council - Lebanon

Sama Beidoun

Assaf Family
Hanna Constantine
George Jarjoura Barakat