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dance • 17 min read

Thinking through dance

Salma Abdel Salam | The choreography of our bodies is changing and it is doing so rapidly, by policing ourselves

13 June 2020

New stories in exile: Anno Kachina

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | Nine years ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in revolt against a regime that had been in

11 March 2020

video • 1 min read

Video | Hindi

Reham Ghareeb | While working in Alexandria’s Odeon Cinema, Hadi started dancing to Hindi music for the audiences.

29 February 2020

dance • 1 min read

Video | The freewheeler

Abdelrahman Huwait and Ahmed El Saaty | After a car accident left Mahmoud with paraplegia, he started practicing contemporary dance

8 July 2019

Cairo Contemporary Dance School (CCDC) • 21 min read

nasa4nasa: The Cairo-based dance collective leaps from Instagram to the squash court

Sara Elkamel | In December 2016, an Instagram account appeared under the name “nasa4nasa.” Its first post was a

15 April 2019

special needs • 1 min read

Video | Mariam

Menem Sami | Twenty-year-old Mariam Naim is an online radio host, performer, and Special Olympics athlete

3 April 2019

Alexandria • 9 min read

Nassim el-Raqs: A dance of mythical creatures on Alexandria’s streets

Randa Ali | Dance festival Nassim el-Raqs is one of Egypt's few remaining contemporary public space art events

10 May 2017

dance • 9 min read

Brazil’s Esmeralda: Belly dance as an idea, a hand wave

Omar Said | The Brazilian dancer on why belly dance became an expression of sexual obsession

9 February 2017

dance • 6 min read

In photos: A Slovenian ballet dancer in Cairo

Nadia El-Dasher | “It turned out to be an audition and I signed a contract with the company.”

9 December 2016

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