Metro Diaries by 63Kolektib

Finding quiet poetry in the commutes of everyday life

Commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi and premiering this June in The Black Box, this original production by UAE-based collective 63Kolektib turns the humble metro ride into a stage, both literal and metaphorical.

Part theatre, part spoken word, and part dance, Metro Diaries is a visceral meditation on life in transit. It captures the fragments of lives that pass us by: a glance exchanged, a tired mother’s sigh, the laughter of schoolkids, a man reading a letter in silence.

These fleeting human moments, usually lost to the blur of daily commutes, are drawn together into a moving portrait of modern Dubai, where thousands travel every day, alone but together.

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Image credit The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi