DANCE FROM THE HEART
Nora Amin
Throughout October/November 2024, Nora Amin will be offering dance workshops following her choreographic signature. These workshops vary between community dance workshops, Baladi dance with a feminist approach, and dance healing workshops. Unless stated otherwise, the workshops are open to all genders, abilities, and ages.
DANCE FROM THE HEART celebrates the expression of plural identities, feminist empowerment, decolonising dance and dance as a transformative healing practise.
Participation free of charge, registration is required. Please wear comfortable clothing, bring a long scarf and a bottle of water.
In connection to HEALING, a performance ritual by Nora Amin.
The workshop focuses on „oriental“ forms of movements and gestures (i.e. Raqs Sharqi, „Baladi“/“Belly“ dance), initiating flow and unity within the body. It is a practice of liberating the emotional body from the strict physical education and forced body behaviour, going towards comfort, pleasure and celebration. Designed for people who identify as women only, providing a safe space to embrace gender identity within cultural plurality, in dignity and respect.
The workshop is open to all genders and ages above 18 years. It focuses on movement practise as an exercise of participation, exchange and solidarity. The movement and dance are born from several creative games that transform into a collective community dance, constructing a sense of togetherness, equity and empowerment.
This workshop deals with the histories of the participants in the language of dance. It is designed as an emotional and expressive journey where members of the group can retrieve their personal histories (whether related to migration or ancestral knowledge), put it into dance practise, and transform the memories ointo an active exercise of healing. It is a chance to learn from the body how it heals, how it reconstructs itself, and how it repairs its past through the practise of motion being the universal law of transformation for all creatures.
This workshop deals with the histories of the participants in the language of dance. It is designed as an emotional and expressive journey where members of the group can retrieve their personal histories (whether related to migration or ancestral knowledge), put it into dance practise, and transform the memories onto an active exercise of healing. It is a chance to learn from the body how it heals, how it reconstructs itself, and how it repairs its past through the practise of motion. Motion, being the universal law of transformation for all creatures. On this final workshop, the participants get to practise a collective ritual of healing that they may take back to their communities as an empowering tool for participatory gatherings.