Combining 16mm footage of a staged dance of two men and documentary SD footage of a pre-wedding celebration in Palestine, the work highlights the affinities and tensions between performativity and performance. – One of a staged choreography, the other of one culturally embodied, while the third develops through editing. Noor Abed focuses on ‘dance’ as a social construct and further examines how the political unconscious can be revealed through sym- bolic acts, particularly practices of movement and choreography.Noor Abed