Choreographer Samar Haddad King, playwright and theater director Amir Nizar Zuab, and members of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (NYC/Palestine) will work collaboratively on The Keeper, a work exploring humanity’s relationship with land as it relates to human survival, culture, and identity, and as a source of political conflict.
BAC Resident Artist

Samar Haddad King
Samar Haddad King is the Artistic/Founding Director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, based between New York and Palestine. King graduated cum laude in choreography from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program in New York under the tutelage of Kazuko Hirabayashi.

Amir Nizar Zuabi
Amir Nizar Zuabi (co-creator/director/playwright for The Keeper) is an award winning theater writer & director, an associated director of Young Vic London, and a member of the United Theaters Europe for artistic achievement.