A doctoral thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Intercultural Interpretation and Contemporary Directorial Vision for Employing Folk Rhythms in Theatrical Performance

The thesis presented by researcher Abdel-Zahra Sami included the topic of theater as a communicative and interactive tool between various local and global cultures through a tangible exchange and overlap between heritage and folklore that carries customs and traditions in order to preserve the local identity.

The thesis discussed intercultural cohesion and through this different vision in the production of new spaces in theatrical play, rejecting the Aristotelian principle.

The thesis aims to clarify the popular rhythms in the theatrical performance as a step to rediscover new discoveries to raise the poetic expression of those theatrical performances, enhance the role of popular expression and discover the roots of faith and special traditions

The thesis concluded that the festive ritual depended on the movement of bodies and the place of a special environment for display and expressed different times and places accompanied by some folkloric rhythms as well as some special costumes and accessories that express a previous time period emanating from the cultural heritage