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Leish Troupe Theatre

Syrian Movement Theatre

Leish is Arabic for 'why'. Leish Troupe is one of the few independent and experimental theatre groups in Syria. Its performances have already won a variety of international awards.

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Cecile Boex, Nisreen Nura in Nura's play - Leish Troupe, 2008-01-11 Photo from powerofculture.nl . Abir Boukhari

1999. Leish Troupe was founded by Nora Murad to start a research about the Movement Theatre, not existing yet in Syria.

The aims was and still is to research and represent a new theater form and a young modern theme, shown by actors using their body depended on movement theater vocabulary, which grant to the performer its won research on the stage in the direction of his communication with the theme, the space, the partner, the rhythm and all other theater elements.

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