Healing

In collaboration with musician and calligrapher Ehab Abdellatif, Nora Amin delves into the worlds of spiritual awakening, holistic knowledge, the unity of existence, and the inspirations of Eastern philosophies and Sufism. In her poetry, vocalization, and choreography, Nora seeks to recreate a moment in which being human reconnects with the wisdom of nature, the logic of ecology, and ancestral archives embodied across generations. Her dancing body becomes a medium that communicates past, present and desired future, a body of transformative projections, while guiding the community of spectators to reunite, to become active partners in the ritual of reconstruction and repair, and to contribute to the energies that arise during the ritual.


HEALING is an exercise to practice a collective and momentary overcoming of pain. A transformative ritual to regain our human power of repair and healing.


An interactive participatory ritual by Nora Amin

Poetry, artistic direction, choreography and performance: Nora Amin

Music co-composition: Nora Amin & Ehab Abdellatif

Calligraphy: Ehab Abdellatif

Scenography: Nora Amin & Ehab Abdellatif

Dramaturgy: Rika Sakalak

A co-production of Ringlokschuppen Ruhr

• Languages: Several
  
• Duration: approx. 60 minutes
  
• Not suitable for children under 14 years
  

World premiere on November 9th, 2024


Nora Amin

Performer, choreographer, author, singer, theater director and scientist/researcher/lecturer. Fellow of the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed (Brazil, 2003), founder of the independent theatre company Lamusica (Egypt, 2000), where she choreographed, directed and produced 45 dance, theatre and music performances. Founder of the nationwide Egyptian Theatre of the Oppressed Project and its Arab network (Lebanon, Sudan & Morocco), fellow of the Academy of World Arts (Cologne, 2015), fellow of the International Research Centre for Interweaving Performance Cultures (FU, 2015-2016), Valeska-Gert Visiting Professor for Dance Studies (FU, 2018), guest lecturer at the Centre for Contemporary Dance (Cologne, 2020/2023/2024), workshop leader at Tanzfabrik (2019-2024), at Berlin Mondiale (2020-2024), at Sasha Waltz & Guests (Community Dance, 2022) and mentor/expert at PAP (Performing Arts Program/LAFT Berlin) and Flausen+bundesnetzwerk (2018-2021). Her latest book is “Dance of the Persecuted” (2021), a feminist perspective on the history of Baladi dance in Egypt, linking coloniality with patriarchy and capitalism, published by MSB Matthes & Seitz, 2021.

She was lead curator of the symposium POSITIONS:DANCE#4 Creating Access #Diversity of the umbrella organization Tanz Deutschland (PACT Zollverein, Essen 2021), co-curator of the symposium on Equity in the Performing Arts by Save the world, Theatertreffen, Akademie der Künste and the German Center of the International Theater Institute (2022), and curator of “The Other Body?” About Racism in Dance, by Offensive Tanz für Junges Publikum and Tanzpakt (2020). She regularly collaborates with the boat people project (Werkraum, Göttingen), is a board member of the German Center of the International Theater Institute and a member of the scientific committee of the Barba Varley Foundation under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine.

She holds a PhD in cultural policy from the University of Hildesheim. Her artistic work focuses on dance as activism and resistance, the decolonization of dance practice, performance as a live archive of memory, feminist empowerment, contemporary participatory rituals and trauma healing. Her acclaimed productions in Germany include: Earthport, Tracings, HAARE, Migrating the Feminine, Rite of Revival, Reinventing Memories, MY DANCE, Re-rooting, WOUND and HEALING.