Boston Dabke Troupe

Fun fact: did you know that BDT is officially 10 years old?? 🥹

No experience required so don’t be shy!! Bring a friend or two, wear your favorite kuffiyeh or Palestinian attire and join us for a special Dabke workshop to close out the year!!!! 💃🕺

Link can also be found in bio😊

A lovely show of solidarity and community with our dear friend chef at her fundraiser pop up!! Thank you to our gracious host .cafe for the coolest backdrop a dabke workshop could possibly have 😍😍

JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST DABKE COMMUNITY LESSON OF THE SEASON! 💃 WE ARE DOING IT PICNIC STYLE 🧺 SO BRING A FRIEND AND SOME SNACKS AND GET READY TO DABKE WITH BDT!

When: Saturday June 28th!
Where: Hayward Street Lot in Kendall Square
Time: 1pm

📣JOIN BDT AND EL-FUNOUN FOR AUTHENTIC PALESTINIAN DABKE LESSONS 💃
This August, El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe is coming straight from Palestine to Boston. We invite you to join us for a weekend of dabke workshops where we will hone our skills, gather in community, and dance in celebration of Palestinian culture.
☀️This will be the event of the summer, you won’t want to miss 👀

📣📣 LOOKING FOR MALE AND FEMALE DABKE ENTHUSIASTS TO JOIN OUR TEAM! 📣📣 New member form can be found in our bio!! 🚨Deadline May 15!! 🚨

At the festival, we witnessed this unity. Vendors came together under this banner, offering goods and stories that enrich our shared heritage. Our choir’s songs paid tribute to our people’s popular cradle and its vibrant cultural production arm. The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) spoke poignantly about our role in this moment, inspiring us to reflect and act.

To culminate the event, BDT debuted and workshopped our new Palestinian resistance-themed choreography—a dabke that represents embodiment of our people’s will to resist and create art that resists.

The concept of the popular cradle is rooted in the understanding that Palestinian resistance is inherently a part of our community. This cradle holds our revolutionary values, nurturing each generation for sustained struggle. It frames our community as both protector and nurturer of the movement.

As long as Palestinian mothers raise their children with stories of resistance, as long as our songs echo in refugee camps, and our language fills the streets, the spirit of the popular cradle will live. This cradle is the shield that protects us and the vessel that carries our hopes. It is our pledge to our people: We will not rest, we will not relent, and we will not be erased.

Our liberation is inevitable.

Until liberation and return

Boston Dabke Troupe ✊🏽

On October 26th, we gathered for a convergence of hearts and minds—a rekindling of our cultural hearth, igniting the flames of our popular cradle in the diaspora.
As Palestinians and Arabs at BDT, we confront the question: What does it mean to uphold our culture in lands far from home under siege and genocide? Over the past year, we found that it was our obligation to advance our people’s culture of resistance, to weave it into the fabric of our daily lives, and to build the foundations of our collective identity as we stand in the belly of the beast.

The Boston Dabke Troupe and MY MOSAIC Events toiled to ensure that this cultural showcase was a step towards piecing together our cultural hearth. We kept costs low, each ticket sold was a contribution to mutual aid in Gaza, a direct line of linkage to our steadfast people facing the unimaginable. Together from this event, we raised $3000 – adding this on to our community’s existing mutual aid work we have raised so far of $40,000.

With this conviction, our material contribution manifests through cultural production as the backbone of our popular cradle. Cultural production—encompassing music, art, and theater—has always been foundational to Palestinian resistance. It is not merely the sum of individual efforts but a deliberate, organized endeavor serving our national struggle and nurturing the popular cradle. Just as during the First Intifada, these artistic expressions unify us, sustaining the revolution by reinforcing our identity and collective resolve.

The intricacies of framing dabke against the backdrop of ethnic cleansing and forced expulsion are not lost on us. For Palestinians within Palestine, and arguably more so for those in the diaspora, dabke is a means of expression and preservation in the face of efforts to hijack our narratives and erase our history.

Cultural resistance is the collective and intentional use of cultural expressions through literature, art, music, dance, and traditions—to assert Palestinian identity and heritage while challenging the erasure imposed by settler-colonial forces. Its performance and preservation act as forms of resistance and reclamation, proclaiming, “We are here” and “This is our narrative.”

In this process of reclamation, we do what we do best: we create communities. We provide a space of belonging for those uprooted from their cultural homes and for individuals seeking new cultural connections.

Join us at our first ever cultural showcase in collaboration with & featuring local vendors, artists and allies. As always, all proceeds go to mutual aid efforts. Hope to see you there ✊🏽

Link for tickets in our bio 🔗