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The article analyzes how Badke conducts an ethnography of Palestinian festivities through dance, transmitting not only structure but also affective states such as joy and madness. It argues that these choices help avoid commodification while staging a heterotopic intersection between the festivities’ content and the stage’s format.","International Journal of Music and Performing Arts June 2015, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 89-95  \nISSN: 2374-2690 (Print) 2374-2704 (Online) Copyright © The Author(s) . All Rights Reserved.  \nPublished by American Research Institute for Policy Development DOI: 10.15640/ijmpa.v3n1a9  \nURL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.15640/ijmpa.v3n1a9](http://dx.doi.org/10.15640/ijmpa.v3n1a9)  \n\"BADKE or Ethnography on the Stage\"  \nHasan Isikli1  \nAbstract  \nBadke isa performance which combines the dance forms of dabke; a traditional Palestinian folk dance with the diverse urban styles. Beyond of any arguments about Palestinian culture and western audience’s Eurocentral perception which may cause a complex issue in the representation or else, the mixed style which is pretended to be ‘just a feel-good performance’, Badke reveals many layers as it is unfolded on the stage. The aim of this article is to analyse how Badke manages an ethnography of Palestinian culture, specifically the festivities with the dance medium. While that mixed dance style is constructed to transfer not simply the structure but also the emotions of the festivities; joy and madness, it prevents to fall from an ethnographic dance into the commodification of a Palestinian culture. Moreover, the performance catches an intersection of heterotopia between its content; the festivities and its format; the stage. Finally, while it associates the ethnic elements with modern dance, hip hop, circus and capoeira that the westerner spectator is familiar, it creates a dialogue between the stranger (other) and familiar (common) .  \nKeywords:Badke, Palestine, Festivity, Ethnography, Dance, Heterotopia  \n1. Introduction  \nOn the printed electronic ticket it is written “Feel-good mix van Palestijnse volksdans. Hedendaagse dans, hiphop en circus. Een heerlijk wervelende voorstelling.” (Feel-good mix of Palestinian folk dance. Contemporary dance, hip hop and circus. A delightfully dazzling performance) . I discovered this text after a few days of performance laying out creased on the table. I never read the crowd of advertisements and other announcements on the electronic tickets. I print out hastily and come last minute to the venue. This time, maktoub (fate) was astonishing; without planning, I had opportunity to watch the performance of Badke1 two times, once in Koninglijk Vlaamse Schouwburg (KVS) (Royal Flemish Theatre), Brussels and four days later in Vooruit [Culture Centre], Ghent. My first impression was that some west European dramaturges discovered the festivity and daily life entertainment in Palestine along their travel to Mediterranean Basin. However, deeper than an experimental folkloric dance, while the performance unfolded with segments, it revealed an intersection of ethnography and performing art. In the context of urban geography, Palestine is a kind of grey zone in Mediterranean Sea which is habitually a destination for the summer; sea and sun tourism with an aspect of a lieu de memoire to study the previous civilisations. Regarding to this structure, Palestine connotes territorial conflicts rather than the memories of the past decorated with soft bright blue and turquoise sea, pale ochre coast washed by the sharp sunlight. When the spectators sat on their seats, they were infused from the beginning by the high rhythm of the Palestinian pop music with the arrangement of the deep sounds that increased between the sequences. The performance vibrated the theatre halls with a carnivalesque approach; within the darkness of foolish and the enjoyment of that culture and it provoked the spectator to review its own positioning. 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