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dance
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Thinking through dance
Salma Abdel Salam
| The choreography of our bodies is changing and it is doing so rapidly, by policing ourselves
New stories in exile
23 min read
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
video
1 min read
Video | Hindi
Reham Ghareeb
| While working in Alexandria’s Odeon Cinema, Hadi started dancing to Hindi music for the audiences.
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
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
special needs
1 min read
Video | Mariam
Menem Sami
| Twenty-year-old Mariam Naim is an online radio host, performer, and Special Olympics athlete
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
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
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.”
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Nassim al-Raqs engages citizens on Alexandria’s streets with an art form Egyptian society is unaccustomed
Ismail Fayed
Notes on belly-dance
I’d like to make a few notes on belly-dance beyond the moral debate around justifying it as a non-sexual
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