Items related to contemporary dance

  In “Only Happiness?” a woman caught up in a “social straitjacket” fights back and forth with an image she imposes on herself, causing an onset of cliches and grotesque images to emerge. Photo by Axel Perez
Countdown to D-CAF: Leading choreographer Tomeo Verges premieres three performances in Cairo this April
Maha ElNabawi 29 Mar 2013
It is a few days before the launch of the second annual Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, or D-CAF, and Catalonian...
Adham Hafez, founder of the TransDance festival
TransDance 2012: A festival that won’t try to be polite
Jenifer Evans 19 Sep 2012
Visitors to next month’s TransDance festival may find themselves challenged by its performances, most of which...
Contemporary dance in Egypt
'We’ve Got More' dance for you
Jenifer Evans 10 Sep 2012
Contemporary dance has an intimidating reputation. Those of us with little knowledge of it tend to have fixed ideas of...
'Here/After' explores loneliness through repetition
Ola El-Saket 23 Apr 2012
A woman shivers while she walks on stage, hardly breathing. She pretends to be fine, though, and tries to fix her...
“We are not from outer space”  is a thought-provoking piece of experimental dance theater by Egyptian choreographer Mohamed Shafik and Netherlands-based choreographers Rita Vilhena and Thomas Proksch.
Experiments in being human: Contemporary dance at Falaki Theater
Kate Goodin 02 Apr 2012
The set is spare and other-worldly, consisting of a space-age silver backdrop and a variety of everyday objects; the...
  By the Egyptian Stock Exchange, young Egyptian choreographer Nadine Emile’s performed "Entity," a stark piece set only to the sounds of the performer’s deliberately sharp breaths.
Dancing through downtown Cairo
Kate Goodin 31 Mar 2012
The Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival kicked off its dance offerings Friday afternoon with a series of performances...
Contemporary dance at Townhouse: The close gaze
Kate Goodin 01 Mar 2012
Karima Mansour and Daria Gusberti’s multimedia dance performance, “Whilst closely gazing at the soup......
Contemporary dance in Egypt
Showcasing contemporary dance in Cairo
Kate Goodin 12 Oct 2011
Townhouse gallery will spotlight Cairo’s small but growing contemporary dance scene Wednesday and Thursday night...
A scene of Euphoria, a film by Ahmed Rouby 
Shadow of shape: Capturing the essence of dance
Adham Hafez 05 Jul 2010
Through his work in performance art and visual theater, Ahmed el-Sayed Ahmed engages with contemporary dance forms by...
Dance theater and the unbridgeable gap between people and states
Louise Sarant 05 May 2010
Famous German choreographer Sasha Waltz presented her dance-theater production “Zweiland” at el-Gomhurriya Theater on 3...