Access Services: ASL Interpretation
Access Notes: Each Friday of the festival, the performance and post-performance discussion will include ASL Interpretation. Red Eye’s space is wheelchair-accessible. Masks are highly encouraged. Some events require masking and masks will be available. Please only attend if you are feeling well, and if not, tickets may be changed to a different day at no charge.
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Schedule and Tickets
A pass to every event Thursday - Saturday is $30. Tickets available through URL. Each evening’s offering will be unrepeatable and accumulate. Each Thursday night of the festival requires masks and offers a discount to Elders; email communications@redeyetheater.org for discount code.
About the Show
May 21-23, 28-30, June 4-6, 11-13, 2026
Created and performed by: Leila Awadallah, Noelle Awadallah, Mette Loulou von Kohl, and Zaquia Mahler Salinas
The 2026 edition of the Red Eye Festival (formerly known as the New Works 4 Weeks Festival) is an annual gathering for live performance works that respond to the current moment and imagine collective transformation. Each year, artist cohorts engage in peer exchange, mutual support and dialogue around creative process that culminates in this public sharing. Over nearly four decades, this incubator of new work has become a cornerstone of the Twin Cities performance landscape.
On the final weekend of the festival Leila Awadallah presents an experiment in wielding ripples of vibration -- INTIFADA INCANTATION.
A group of performers are joined by a self-playing instrument that drones and shifts based on the vibrations in the floor and air. A work activated by specific bodies, tethered ancestrally to Palestine, and tethered viscerally to the ruptures ongoing. Asking; how do we enact a series of experiments and incantations*; attuning to the ripples and attempting to wield them towards the shapes of intifada* near and far.
* انتفاضة - to shake off, tremor, uprising
The FRIDAY 7PM work-in-progress will share #2 Accumulation Tremor - Continuum and New Questions, with a post-performance engagement.
Leila Awadallah is a dancer, choreographer and community collaborator based in Minneapolis and sometimes Beirut. She is the Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance with her sister Noelle Awadallah. This project centers Palestine, a body-as-homeland practice, a site for improvisational inquiry and folk-rooted experimentations of SWANA dance forms. Leila is wielding her energy towards cultural INTIFADA on multiple fronts, and asks you to join her in the long middle of the revolution to liberate Palestine and demand LANDBACK / THE RIGHT TO RETURN.
Instrument “the dog” by: Alex Leeds.
* words inspired by June Jordan: Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.