The Transformative Body
Workshop
with
Nora Amin
In the frame of OsterTanz 2023
Building on previous collaborations and workshops between Nora Amin and Tanzfabrik, her new workshop The Transformative Body aims to provoke a transformation within/via the dancing body. By employing Nora’s signature choreographic style, the workshop will navigate with a feminist approach towards re-rooting the self, re-visiting corporal memory and creating embodiments of transformation. By Relying on the vocabulary and techniques of Baladi dance, we will find a ritualistic presence that may lead to a transformative dance for each participant.
Accessibility Note
The workshop will be held in spoken English, follow-up questions for clarification may also be in Arabic or French. No previous dance experience is required. Not all movements will be verbalized in detail, non-verbal communication will be needed as well. Music plays an important role and is used. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be facilitated for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg, which unfortunately not wheelchair accessible, can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de.
Nora Amin
Nora Amin (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer, theatre director, author and scholar. She is an expert/consultant at LAFT/PAP, advisor to Kuyum Dance Platform and board member of the German Center of the International Theater Institute. Nora Amin holds a PhD in performing arts and cultural policy. Her publications include: “Migrating the Feminine / Weiblichkeit im Aufbruch” (2018), and “Dance of the Persecuted / Tanz der Verfolgten” (2021). She is a co-curator/creator of the MA program “Participation, communities, Activism” at London Contemporary Dance School, The Place. Nora Amin wants to follow a path that blurs the boundaries between community dance and staged dance by allowing non-dancers to contribute to reinventing established forms.