Mast Qalandar Dancehall (2022)

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‘Mast Qalandar Dancehall’ was a digital music and dance collaboration that interwove Sufi music and dancehall with a variety of traditional and contemporary dance forms to create a contemporary rendition of the popular Mast Qalandar song. As an intercultural project, the Mast Qalandar Dancehall featured a unique synthesis of sounds and images that combine interdisciplinary art forms and influences from Birmingham, Pakistan and Jamaica, blending musical genres including dancehall, roots reggae, mystic dhamaal, Sufi qawwali, world trans and electronica hiphop, and interwove UK and Pakistani contemporary and traditional dance forms of high energy freestyle street dance, dancehall, hip hop, sammi and jhumar. The work was built on an online collaboration project by Kalaboration Arts and Art Langar, Mast Qalander Dancehall: Part I, originally commissioned by Transforming Narratives in 2020 featuring Myki Tuff, Gulshan Jahar and Arieb Azhar. The project was conceived and directed by Mukhtar Dar, and the music composition was by Simon Duggal. Transforming Narratives was a ground-breaking three-year project to establish Birmingham as a leading international centre for contemporary Pakistani and Bangladeshi arts, for the mutual benefit of Birmingham and cities in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is managed by Culture Central, supported by Arts Council England and delivered in association with The British Council.

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