Residenz Nora Amin
Nora Amin
During this research residency, choreographer/performer and vocalist Nora Amin re-explores the ritualistic performativity inspired from her Egyptian and Arab heritage, while focusing on the expressions of grief, mourning and healing. Along with her artistic partner, Ehab Abdellatif, who works with music composition and sound/image design, Nora mixes the vocalisation with movement in order to develop the potential for a holistic dance ritual where voice and body transcend the present and the borders of the self, towards reviving memories/sensations of the ancestors and beloved ones who passed away.
In rituals in general, the community gathers and stays in solidarity and in empathy with each other; and for the final presentation of this residency the artists invite the audience to a ritual of empathy, mutual healing and togetherness.
Nora Amin:
Nora Amin is a choreographer, performer, theatre director, author and scholar. She founded Lamusica Independent Theatre Group in Egypt (2000) where she choreographed, directed and produced 54 pieces of dance, theatre and music. In 2011 she founded the nation-wide Egyptian Project for Theatre of the Oppressed and its Arab network in Sudan, Morocco & Lebanon. Since 2015 she is resident of Berlin. She was a fellow at the Academy of the Arts of the World (Cologne, 2015), Valeska Gert Visiting Professor for dance sciences (Freie Universität Berlin, 2018) and instructor for dance workshops with Tanzfabrik, Berlin Mondiale and Sasha Waltz & Guests (among others) since 2018. She is an expert/consultant at LAFT/PAP, former mentor of the Goethe Institute's MENA training program and board member of the German Center of the International Theater Institute (ITI). She also holds a PhD in performing arts and cultural policy from the university of Hildesheim.
Current publications include: Migrating the Feminine / Weiblichkeit im Aufbruch (MSB, Matthes & Seitz, 2018), and Dance of the Persecuted / Tanz der Verfolgten (MSB, Matthes & Seitz, 2021) a feminist approach towards the decolonisation of Baladi Dance / Raqs Sharqi. She curated the Jahrestagung of ITI on equality in transcultural performing arts (2021), and co-curated the symposium on #access #diversity in dance, by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland at the annual German Dance Prize (2021), and the symposium on Equity & the Performing Arts, by Save the World, with Theater Treffen, Academy of Arts Berlin and ITI (2022).
She is a co-curator/creator of the MA program Participation, communities, Activism at London Contemporary Dance School The Place.
She is a member of the scientific committee of the conference/festival Performing Tangiers, and of the BarbaVarley Fondacione founded by Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley, headed by Arianne Mnouchkine.
Her work covers feminist discourse, topics of oppression, coloniality, togetherness, cultural justice and trauma healing. Her most recent dance creations are My Dance, Live Archive, Embodying Voice Rituals, and Re-rooting.
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