Ahad Abbaneh Wins Best Integrated Performance Award at 'Land of Gestures' Festival in Moscow
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Theater director Ahad Abbaneh won the Best Integrated Performance Award for the play 'The Struggle,' which he directed with the Oman Deaf Theater Company, as part of the 9th International 'Land of Gestures' Festival in the Russian capital, Moscow, in a theatrical achievement that reflects the uniqueness of the directorial experience based on body language and visual expression.
Abbaneh built the performance on a theatrical system that employs body language, gesture, psychodrama, kinetic composition, rhythm, and scenography, alongside developing visual and physical communication mechanisms with deaf actors, making the body a fundamental tool in producing dramatic action, building character, and shaping meaning.
In addition to the Best Integrated Performance Award, 'The Struggle' won several other awards, including Best Direction, Best Physical Performance, and Best Costume Design, in recognition of the performance's elements and the integration of its directorial vision with physical performance and visual compositions.
Abbaneh's experience in 'The Struggle' presents a model of theatrical work that makes the body a language, movement a text, and silence a dramatic space, affirming the theater's ability to transcend the limits of words and reach the audience through image, gesture, rhythm, and physical presence.
