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Sabrine Darbuka Returns to Redefine the Contemporary Art Scene with Upcoming 'Albi' Performance

“The heart is the house of intuition and balance between mind and body; giving and receiving; will and surrender.."

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Sabrine Darbuka Returns to Redefine the Contemporary Art Scene with Upcoming 'Albi' Performance

“The heart is the house of intuition and balance between mind and body; giving and receiving; will and surrender. Yet as we age, we harden, we lose our connection and we deny our heart.”

Albi is a contemporary dance music live performance created and directed by professional darbuka player Sabrine El Hossamy. It will take the Falaki Stage on November 16th and 17th at 8PM.

Integrating choreographed dance with her own playing of the darbuka and an electronic live performance by Dr. Shahir of Masters of Funk, El Hossamy put her choreography together with assistance by Sherin Hegazy and Sarah Gabr.

 

“The way I play darbuka is a little bit different than the traditional way. I play a traditional instrument but what I’m trying to express is [about] contemporizing this instrument,” El Hossamy told @Scene Noise. “[I aim] to bring darbuka to another platform, to play it with different instruments, to do different collaborations, to find new rhythms than the traditional ones, to come out of the connection between darbuka player and belly-dancing. I just want to be able to bring something new to that scene.”

El Hossamy is an Egyptian Darbuka and Duff player. She is one of a handful of women who plays Daburka and Duff professionally, seeing women’s empowerment as the force behind her touring the world, performing and teaching others about her music.

'Dom Tak' Cairo Rhythm House was founded by El Hossamy in 2016 to teach Darbuka and to connect with other musicians, but not before she released her full-length album ‘Darbuka Heat’ with EMI in 2010.