MY DANCE

Nora Amin

For International Women’s Day, steptext dance project invites the dancer and choreographer Nora Amin (Egypt/Germany) to Bremen for a guest performance and workshop.

Amin's solo MY DANCE uses the example of belly dancing to sensitively show the mechanisms of power that lie behind the exoticization of dance and dancers. In doing so, she returns the external perspective to the individual self-assertion of the dancing body. A shift in perspective and interpretive sovereignty towards the dancer*, who determines her own dance and takes the freedom and space for femininity.

The dance solo that Nora Amin performs herself together with the musician Ehab Abdellatif is a personal testimony of the author, choreographer and director, who traces her own body history between Egypt and Germany and exposes the insincerity of all role assignments from the outside. An invitation to rediscover dance together as art and decolonial, anti-patriarchal practice.

On March 8 at 5 p.m., the Africa Network Bremen is offering a communal meal before the performance. A group of women from ANB will prepare couscous in various flavors. Everyone interested is warmly invited to join the meal and engage in conversation.

The Africa Network Bremen e.V. is committed to the concerns and topics that interest Africans in Bremen and their friends, with or without an African migration background.

On Sunday, March 9, Nora Amin will lead the workshop “Dance from the Heart”

A dance workshop for women (FLINTA*) of all cultures, ages and abilities. The workshop is a training to understand dance as an expression of identity, as a healing medium and as a transformative force. "This can be a place to decode the past, embrace the present and celebrate what is yet to come." (Nora Amin) Based on her choreographic signature and her extensive research into the decolonization of Baladi dance practice, which culminated in her book TANZ DER VERFAHRTEN (Matthes & Seitz, 2021), Nora offers a workshop in the spirit of empowerment and healing.

Composition: Nora Amin & Ehab Abdellatif | Music & Video: Ehab Abdellatif | Photos: Michaela Seiffert

The guest performance is presented by steptext dance project and supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest Performance Funding for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the cultural and arts ministries of the federal states.