User:Adham Hafez

Adham Hafez
Adham Hafez is an Egyptian artist, working in the fields of choreography, performance, sound and text. He has contributed actively to performance and dance research and archival practices in the Arabic speaking region. Described in The New Yorker as 'An entrepreneur of Egyptian avant-garde theatre, Hafez is an intellectual magpie whose text-heavy works bristle with political ideas', he is the founder of HaRaKa Platform, which is dedicated to research, theory, experimentation and production in the fields of performance, choreography and dance. Over the past 15 years, Adham Hafez has created performances, installations, and concerts in Egypt, the Arabic speaking region, Europe and the US. Together with the platform HaRaKa, Adham Hafez experimented with hybrid forms, physical dramaturgy, cultural policy as performance acts, and new choreographic systems. Hafez is the founder of the publication Cairography, launched in 2014 and aims to enhance the discursive exchange on performances practices in the Arab and Western worlds, crossing language barriers. He is also founder of the international experimental festival TransDance, that focused on transdisciplinary practices and intersectional work in the fields of choreography and contemporary dance. He has collaborated with internationally renowned artists and scholars including Constanza Macras, Yoshiko Chuma, Hassan El Geretly, Cristina Caprioli, among others. His work has been presented at the Cairo Opera House, Damascus Opera House, Hebbel Am Ufer Theatre, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, and Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

Biography
Adham Hafez was born in Cairo, Egypt, to a family engaged with the arts and critical writing. Hafez started performing at the age of 8 years old, to start later training in western classical music. He studied contemporary dance and opera at Cairo Opera House in Egypt, before moving to Amsterdam to study for his Master's in choreography at the Amsterdam Theatre School. Hafez has also studied political science and arts at SciencePo in Paris, where he earned a second Master's degree.

Selected Repertoire
In 50 Years Or So (premiere November 2019)- multimedia performance, installation and film triptych commissioned by the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Suez Canal's inauguration.

To Catch A Terrorist ​(premiere May 2018)- Installation, Data analysis and forensics based performance studying the history of Muslim immigrants in the US, and 'the formation of disciplined bodies'

ETMAC- Extra Territorial Ministry of Arab Culture ​(premiere October 2017)

ELECTRODOMESTICS ​(premiere March 2017)- Installation and Culinary based performance in collaboration and co-production with Constanza Macras | Dorky Park Company

2065 BC ​(premiere March 2015) – Installation-Performance, Choreographic-Conference that reenacted and revisited the 1884 Berlin Conference.

“THIS IS THE END”​ (premiere January 2015) - Lecture performance investigating notions of the transhuman within a revolutionary discourse embedded in the Arab Spring. Produced in partnership with CCAP (Stockholm), and premiered at MoMA PS1