Performance

The World Cup Run

1 upcoming performance in New York

“The World Cup Run” arrives at Brooklyn Paramount as a live Rock/Pop set featuring Ahmed Saad, staged in one of New York’s newly reactivated large-room venues. The show frames sport as shared ritual, drawing on the World Cup’s pull across language and neighborhood lines, and translating that energy into song. If this is the project’s first New York appearance, it reads like a test of how global pop narratives land in a city built on diasporas. The most telling moments are when the crowd becomes the chorus.