Cabaret: The Dancing Djinn
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
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The Dancing Djinn returns to Montréal with a brand-new Pride edition. This queer Arab cabaret blends live music, belly dance, drag, and theatrical storytelling into an unprecedented experience on a Canadian stage, built around the rebirth of the Mukhannathun, third-gender artists of medieval Arabia and Andalusia. Every song and number is new, but the magical story remains: a desert traveler, a whispering lamp, and the djinn who changes her fate. Presented in the intimate 1930s cabaret format of the Lion d'Or, the show unfolds in the heart of the room.
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- As Nikotine sets out into the desert, the djinn in her lamp breaks free and seduces her endlessly: Samara! Full of secrets, she whispers to Nikotine legends of Queerabia, and leads her to an oasis far away. An anti-colonial Aladdin, THE DANCING DJINN mixes original live music (Arabic, English), theatre (monologues, comedy, crowd work) and Baladi dance (bellydance, jazz, burlesque) in a dazzling 2-person theatre-drag extravaganza.. the likes of which the world has never seen.; Join our mailing li
- Transportation
- 125, 45
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Where
Cabaret du Lion d'Or · 1676, rue Ontario Est · Montréal · QC
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