Nora Amin »My Dance«

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To mark International Women's Day, steptext dance project is inviting dancer and choreographer Nora Amin (Egypt/Germany) to Bremen for a guest performance and workshop.
Amin's solo MY DANCE uses the example of so-called belly dance to sensitively show the mechanisms of power behind the exoticization of dance and dancers. In doing so, it returns the external perspective to the individual self-assertion of the dancing body. A shift in perspective and interpretative sovereignty towards the dancer*, who determines her own dance and takes the freedom and space for femininity.
The dance solo, which 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 ascriptions from the outside. An invitation to rediscover dance as art and decolonial, anti-patriarchal practice together.

About the artist*:

Nora Amin is a choreographer, performer, author and researcher. She has been based in Berlin since 2015, where she has developed her own choreographic signature through community dance workshops, professional contemporary dance workshops, solo performances, academic lectures/seminars and book publications. She holds a PhD in Cultural Policy and Performing Arts from the University of Hildesheim and is the author of "Migrating the Feminine" and "Dance of the Persecuted" (MSB Matthes & Seitz, 2018-2021). She is a board member of the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Barba Varley Foundation as well as co-designer/curator of the MA Dance Program: Community, participation & activism (London Contemporary Dance School, The Place, UK).

Supporting program:

On March 8 at 5pm, Afrika Netzwerk Bremen will offer cooking and eating together before the performance. A group of women from the ANB will prepare couscous in various flavors. Everyone who would like to is cordially invited to join in the meal and conversation. The Afrika-Netzwerk Bremen e.V. is committed to the concerns and issues of interest to Africans in Bremen and their friends, with and 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.

Accessibility:

All public areas of the Schwankhalle are at ground level and accessible without steps.

There are three different toilets: a barrier-free toilet that can also be used by wheelchair users, a toilet with three toilet cubicles and a toilet with urinals and a toilet cubicle.

The public area is generally seated.
The wheelchair spaces are located in the front row and can be reserved in advance by telephone (tel: 0421 520 80 70), by email (email: ticket@schwankhalle.de) or by entering them in the ticket store.

Individual requirements such as specific seats, early boarding or an additional ticket for an accompanying person can also be specified when purchasing or reserving tickets.

Further information on the accessibility of our premises can be found here: (link: service/accessibility text: Accessibility). If you have any questions, please contact us at (email: ticket@schwankhalle.de) or (tel: 0421 520 80 70).

Price information:

20 € / 12 € reduced Bremen Pass: 3 € Kultursemesterticket: free of charge