Cheikha Rabia and Esraa Warda both hail from Algeria, but today, they live in opposite corners of the world. Rabia, a renowned singer with over five decades of experience in keeping Bedouin vocal tradition alive, is based in Paris; Warda, a prolific dancer expert in traditional North African dance forms, lives in New York. When they come together, the diaspora divas provide a glimpse into the disappearing culture of ‘Cheikhat’ and Rai dancers - foregrounding Algerian tradition through a powerful dance and song performance in which the ancestral and the contemporary find common ground.

Photos courtesy of the artists.