Louvre Abu Dhabi Launches Annual Rain of Light Festival
The week-long performing arts festival launches to celebrate Louvre Abu Dhabi’s architecture and the second cultural season of the museum, “A World of Exchanges”. The annual festival, running from 11 – 15 December, will include both free and ticketed concerts, traditional dance and music, street dance battles and street art performances.
PERFORMANCES
Al Ayyala
11th – 15th December, 16.00 – 16.15 and 17.00 – 17.15
Al Ayala performances by Mubarak Al Otaiba group
Price: Price AED 100 (including VAT)
20% discount applicable for Art Club Members, UAE military, visitors aged between 5 to 22 and UAE teachers
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: By the Rodin statue, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Royal Ballet of Cambodia
Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th December, 20.00 -21.30
The Khmer dance tradition is amongst the most refined in the world. The Ballet will be performing a homage to famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin, titled Metamorphosis, an adaptation of the myth of Psyche through the history of Vaddhana Devi by Artistic Director Jean-Hervé Vidal. Rodin met the Royal Ballet of Cambodia for the first time in July 1906, in Paris, during a performance at the Théâtre du Pré Catelan, whose ballerinas inspired his watercolour paintings of dancers.
Price: Price AED 100 (including VAT)
20% discount applicable for Art Club Members, UAE military, visitors aged between 5 to 22 and UAE teachers
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Auditorium Plaza, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Battle of styles
11th – 15th December, 16.00 – 16.15 and 17.00 – 17.15
The Battle of Styles performance will see a mix of cultures where ballet, contemporary and break dance collide together under the museum’s iconic dome. The concept conceived by Carmen Mehnert together with ‘The Saxonz’ group dancers is based on the principle of breakdance battles where different dance styles ‘battle’ each other in one arena. The event, presented by Emirati comedian MC Abdullah Al Qassab and French MC Malik Moujouil, is organised and toured by PLAN B, the creative agency for performing arts by Carmen Mehnert, Anna Bründl and Anne Schmidt.
Price: Price AED 100 (including VAT)
20% discount applicable for Art Club Members, UAE military, visitors aged between 5 to 22 and UAE teachers
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Auditorium Plaza, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Hindi Zahra – Homeland live concert
Friday 14th December, 20.00 – 21.20
Franco-Moroccan artist Hindi Zahra will perform at Louvre Abu Dhabi on 14 December, singing an award-winning mix of contemporary jazz and blues from her latest album Homeland, an ode to her homeland Morocco.
Price: Price AED 100 (including VAT)
20% discount applicable for Art Club Members, UAE military, visitors aged between 5 to 22 and UAE teachers
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Auditorium Plaza, Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Nile Men in the Circle
Friday 14th and Saturday 15th December, 18.00 – 19.15
The Medhat Fawzy Centre will be performing The Nile Men in the Circle on 14 and 15 December, a traditional ancient Egyptian dance from the time of the Pharaohs. The show, presenting the whole spectrum of the art of the stick TAHTIB, was created at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris in March 2018. It is choreographed by Dalia El Abd, Director of El Warsha company, Hassan El Geretly, Cairo-based French director Henri Jules Julien, and Marseilles-based Camille Mauplot.
Price: Price AED 100 (including VAT)
20% discount applicable for Art Club Members, UAE military, visitors aged between 5 to 22 and UAE teachers
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Auditorium, Louvre Abu Dhabi
POP-UP EVENTS
Ghost Project – Etienne Saglio
Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th December, 18.30 – 18.50 and 19.30 – 19.50
Thursday 13th December, 19.30 – 19.50
Through The Ghost Project performance, Etienne Saglio establishes a link with a translucent shape that comes to life before visitors’ eyes. Minimalist yet spectacular, The Ghost Project plunges the spectator in the heart of a fantastical universe.
Price: Free upon Museum admission ticket presentation (in the Louvre Abu Dhabi venues)
Free for all visitors – no admission ticket requested (in the Louvre Abu Dhabi Park)
Location: Concrete Beach, Louvre Abu Dhabi Park
La Transumante
Friday 14th and Saturday 15th December, 12.00 – 18.00
Created by the co-founder of Circus O, brilliant innovator Johann Le Guillerm, La Transumante is a moving wooden creature that will come to life and transform every hour. No nails, no screws, no bolts, no glues, no ropes: pressure alone holds this dynamic piece together. Using three hundred wooden blocks of three meters in length, the conductor Johann Le Guillerm will be assisted by ten handlers and nine local volunteers. The simple pressure of the wooden squares against each other holds the assembled work. It can reach 300 m² on the ground and climb up to four metres high. La Transumante was created for Nuit Blanche 2014 on Place du Panthéon – Paris.
Price: Free upon Museum admission ticket presentation (in the Louvre Abu Dhabi venues)
Free for all visitors – no admission ticket requested (in the Louvre Abu Dhabi Park)
Location: Park / Dome, Louvre Abu Dhabi
WORKSHOPS
Drawing workshop – Royal Ballet of Cambodia
Tuesday 11th December, 14.00 – 15.00
Free workshop to accompany performance
Price: Free-ticketed
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Open to walk-in visitors upon booking free access at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Children’s Museum, 1st Floor, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Dance it out – Battle of Styles
Wednesday 12th December, 11.00 – 13.00
Free workshop to accompany performance
Price: Free-ticketed
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Open to walk-in visitors upon booking free access at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Auditorium Plaza, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Master class cadence in Abu Dhabi – Nile Men in the Circle
Saturday 15th December, 11.00 – 13.00
Free workshop to accompany performance
Price: Free-ticketed
Booking available on website and on site until the beginning of the show at the museum’s ticketing desk
Open to walk-in visitors upon booking free access at the museum’s ticketing desk
Location: Auditorium, Louvre Abu Dhabi
FAMILY ACTIVITIES
Animal Kingdom
Friday 14, Saturday 15, Tuesday 11 December 11.30-12.30
Discover the stories and meaning of animals in eastern and western cultures hidden in the artworks of the permanent collection and inside the Children’s Museum.
Price: AED 52.50. Reduced Price: AED 31.50
Location: Museum Galleries
Animal Footprints
Thursday 13th, Saturday 15th December 16.00 – 17.00
Follow the footprints of the animals in the Children’s Museum exhibition and discover the meaning of animals and their representation in art.
Price: AED 52.50. Reduced Price: AED 31.50
Location: Children’s Museum
Sensory Tactile Tour
Wednesday 12th December 15.30 – 16.30
A touch tour consisting of tactile and sensory tools for an interactive experience of the artworks in the museum’s collection. Suitable for people of determination
Price: AED 52.50. Reduced Price: AED 31.50
Location: Museums Galleries
Folded Stories
Friday 14th December 11.00-12.30
Family workshop – Folded Stories (ages 6+). Create a miniature screen based on the works by Sérusier and Bonnard. Explore the fascinating techniques of story-telling that can be used on a screen, including the use of a motif on a frieze, the continuity of a landscape and the interruption of perspective.
Price Per Person: AED 52.50. Reduced Price: AED 31.50
Location: Children’s Museum
Artist’s Adventure
Friday 14th December 15.00 – 16.30
For children age 8 –12 years
Price: AED 52.50. Reduced Price: AED 31.50
Location: Studio 2
UAE Motifs
Saturday 15th December 11.00-12.30
Investigate Emirati artworks focusing on “Pendant with animal pairs” from Ras Al Khaimah. Participants create new designs based on jewellery found in the collection
Price: 80 AED / 50 AED
Location: Studio 1
Behind the Mask
Friday 14th December 16.00-17.30
Discover how human and animal forms shaped the design of spectacular masks. Back in the workshop, create a mask using an assortment of 3D materials.
Price: AED 52.50. Reduced Price: AED 31.50
Location: Studio 1
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