Festival · Porto, Portugal
EDA – Encontro de Danças Árabes / Festival EDA Oporto
Active / recurring
Portuguese Arab/Oriental dance meeting-festival bringing teachers from Portugal and abroad to Porto for workshops, gala programming and competition/performance opportunities.
20–22 March 2026 · organized by Matahari
Edition 2026 · Verified edition
Teachers & performers
Line-up
Faculty not safely recovered
Programme
Highlights
- Three-day Porto Oriental dance festival cycle.
Verification: Dates verified in public dancer/event calendar.
Archive
Previous editions
2025 · 22–23 March 2025
Verified edition
Ayse; Matahari; Jade el Jabel; Tony Mouzayek
Master workshops and festival performance/competition programming in Porto.
2024 · 8–10 March 2024
Verified edition
International/regional faculty; full roster not safely reconstructed
Opening hafla on 8 Mar plus workshops, performance and competition/festival programming.
2023 · 25–26 February 2023
2nd EDA Portugal
Priscilla Belle; Samara Hayat; Matahari
Porto workshops and festival programming.
Verification and sources
Edition/date/faculty documented in Matahari's biography.
2022 · 1–2 October 2022
1st EDA Portugal
Pablo Acosta; Samara Hayat; Mónica López
Porto master workshops and Arab/Oriental dance festival programming.
Verification and sources
Edition/date/faculty documented in Matahari's professional biography.
Research record
Verification: Medium–High
Artist biographies and event calendars document editions from the first EDA Portugal in 2022 through a 2026 festival cycle.
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