MY DANCE, Nora Amin

In the organizer's words:

Nora Amin liberates so-called belly dance from the sediments of history: she reverses the voyeuristic and exoticized perspective into a perspective of her own body and her own history and enables the audience to take a new look. MY DANCE is an attempt to shift power, a reflection on female sexuality, the erotic self and patriarchal oppression, as well as on the effects of colonialism and racism on belly dance and the image of women associated with it.

The solo is also a personal testimony by the author, choreographer and director, who traces her own body history between Egypt and Germany. Nora Amin searches for an artistic language that embodies both the trauma and the ecstasy of liberation and enables communal dancing as an intimate and decolonial practice beyond the categorizations of white economies.

Concept, text, choreography, performance: Nora Amin
Music composed by Nora Amin & Ehab Abdellatif
Singing: Nora Amin
Videography: Ehab Abdellatif

The performance is supported by the "Engagement für Vielfalt, Toleranz und Demokratie an der HfMT Köln" funding fund.

Duration: 60 minutes
Language: English (with occasional Arabic words and a song in Arabic)

Suitable for all audiences aged 14 and over.
The performance covers topics such as trauma, rape, injury and disability. The video projection contains nudity.

Free admission, registration required.

To register

Prior to the performance, a lecture with Nora Amin will take place on April 16, 2024 at 6.30 pm as part of the feminist series "What's the big deal about independence?" at the HfMT Cologne, in which Nora Amin will convey feminist and decolonial perspectives on being a dancer.

Location: ZZT-Studiotheater, Turmstraße 3-5, 50733 Cologne

Price information:

Free admission, registration required.