Join El-Funoun for Their 2026 Tawasol Tour

NYC/NJ Dates: September 4th - September 6th

Red, black, and white still of El-Funoun dancers in motion, right arm raised in a fist. US Dabke Workshop Presentaiton Tour – Sept 2026. NYC, Minneapolis, San Francisco, LA, San Diego

ON SEPTEMBER 4–6, members of the renowned Palestinian dance troupe El-Funoun will be coming to NYC and NJ to do a series of new dabke workshop presentations as part of their third annual USA Tawasol Tour.

Tawasol, which means to connect and communicate, aims to promote Palestinian culture, engage with local communities, and raise funds for the troupe. Dabke is the traditional Palestinian dance form, performed at weddings and other celebrations, in which El-Funoun’s innovative dance style is rooted. El-Funoun’s Tawasol merges dynamic dance, storytelling, and audience participation. It is a living archive of memory, identity, and the enduring spirit of dabke as both resistance and celebration.

Tickets for El-Funoun September 6 in NYC

Tickets for NJ coming soon

Tawasol Tour USA

Check out the full schedule for El-Funoun’s 2026 multicity tour.

Photo: *Tawasol Tour, La MaMa, NYC, October 12, 2025.*

About El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe

For over 46 years, El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe has been preserving, promoting, and reimagining Palestinian culture. Established in 1979 by a small group of artists, the Troupe today comprises close to 300 volunteer members. El-Funoun is committed to dance education, running its own dance school and youth troupe, Barem El-Funoun, in Palestine and conducting dabke training in Palestine and around the world. Through its work, El-Funoun aims to challenge oppression and resist Israel’s attempts at cultural erasure.

Recognizing culture as a tool of and for resistance, El-Funoun challenges the complicity of international aid agencies in the oppression of Palestinians by refusing politically conditioned funding from agencies that have failed to condemn the Israeli genocide.

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A dancer on a stage leaps high into the air, one leg extended in front, the other behind; a line of dabke dancers behind him, dance in a line, clasping hands. Photo credit: Nida' Qatamish

Against a dark stage, a spotlight falls on a dancer in all black, a black and white kaffiya tied around his head. He is in the midst of a deep lunge, swinging a Palestinian flag, which flies out behind him. Photo credit: Nida' Qatamish

Against an electric-blue lit background, a loose group of dancers, all facing in different ways, are high in the air in the midst of a jump. Photo credit: Nida' Qatamish

A group of dancers, all smiling, in a wide stance, one arm raised and slightly bent, the other arm extended but lowered. Photo credit: Nida' Qatamish

HELP BRING EL-FUNOUN MEMBERS TO NYC

All donations will go to cover travel and meals for El-Funoun members and production expenses for their Tawasol Tour.