The ninth edition of the Raks Madrid international festival of Arabic music and dance will take place in April 2020.
It will be a new edition dedicated to dance with orchestral accompaniment, “The Live Music Experience”,with high quality professional courses, shows and a lot of live music.
The festival incorporates several days of study and evenings of live performance. All the music will be played live by the orchestra directed by Nesma and featuring accomplished musicians from Europe and the Middle East.
Raks Madrid is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself for a whole week in Oriental Dance with a real orchestra made up of great musicians, to learn from true experts in Arabic dance and music and to perform in the evenings of the festival.
The festival is created to enable the dancers to understand essence of Arabic music as well as the means to interpret it through dance, and promote our art to a wider public.