A journey into the womb. Creating a dance that mirrors the womb to the globe, exploring how time and space can shift through a dialogue between music and the pelvic movement allowing a discography through multiple layers of the inherited and contemporary conditioning of our physical perception and means expression, Working through the center, the origin of life force, the space of power manifestation, to come back to the depth of the familiar ground...the core.
Credits
Concept, Dance and Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Artistic collaboration, Live Music and Composition: Ahmed Saleh
Vocals Anastasia Katsinavaki
Cello and Text Shaymaa Shoukry
Belly dance movement coach Sherin Hegazy
Produced by: Ahmed El Attar, Dayer for Artistic Productions
With the support of: Orient Productions
Supported by Le Fonds de soutien aux Arts Arabes (FSAA), Arab Arts Focus Asscoiation Paris (AAF)
Research residency: Between the Seas Art Space 1927
Womb is realized with the support of Mophradat’s Grant for Artists’ practice Program
Womb is developed during the ProHelvetia Cairo residency program hosted by the Dansometre Vevey Switzerland
Testing the ability to recover from or adjust to…
Post our spring, post hoping for change: How can we keep going?
A Work qustioning how to find continuity and perseverance in the world we live in today.
The Resilience of the Body readapted to be performed outdoors in a special duo formate in collaboration with Mahmoud El Hadad
Choreography & Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
performance :Mahmoud El Hadad
Sound: Open source
Light design: Saber el Sayed
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Production: Dayer for Artistic Productions
PLACCC Budapest Hungary
A duet between two, a man and a woman,
a dance performance that deals with the topic of fighting.. Asking...
What are we fighting for?
Who are we fighting?
What about the fight we have within ourselves?
Testing the ongoing perseverance, the inner conflicts and the ways we manage to carry on.
Concept, Choreography, and Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
Choreographic Collaboration and Performance: Mohamed Fouad Music Composition and Performance: Ahmed Saleh Light Design and Technical Director: Saber El Sayed Producer: Ahmed El Attar
Production :
Arab Arts Focus,
Dayer For Artistic Production,
Khalf 40
Co Production: Les Bancs Publics
Creation residency and Work in progress showing : 2019 Sequence Danse, CentquatreParis France,
2020 Egypt Premier Falaki Theatre Cairo Egypt 2020
2021 Les Roncontre a L’echelle Les Banc Public, Friche La belle de Mai, Marsille
2021 Massion de la culture MC93 Paris la Saison Africa.
2021 Rawabet Space, Cairo Egypt.
2021Arab Arts Focus La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de -Marne And Theatre Jean-Vilar/ Vitry-Sur-Seine
#youtoo
#YOUTOO is a choreographic collaboration between Hana Tefrati and Shaymaa Shoukry that deals with coping with violent behavior and self-assertion mechanisms against gender-based violence and sexual harassment. Both artists live in the MENA region, Marrakech and Cairo, cities where everyday sexism is very common. Through a series of open studios and movement workshops in Hamburg and Marrakech, they have collected personal stories, experiences and thoughts on the topic and will in this performance explore personal and collective methods to overcome gender-specific violence.
with and by: Hana Tefrati / Shaymaa Shoukry
music and composition: Moss Beyon Juckes
World Premiere: Kampnagel – K1 Hamburg Germany
Discontinued 3
An encounter, a risk, a festival! We are celebrating 10 years of post-migrant theater at Ballhaus Naunynstraße with the international performance festival Permanent Unrest! 23 artists come together in 5 constellations at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, for a first encounter, for a work process that has yet to be negotiated, showing for two evenings each.
With:
Deepika Arwind (performer, theater maker & author), Linda Nabasa (actress, author),
Shaymaa Shoukry (choreographer & performer),
Biliana Voutchkova (musician, composer & performer).
Ballhous Naunynstraße Berlin Germany December 2018
To walk… to… with… away from…
The fall… The shift… The common weight… The counterpoint…
A research on walking.
A very basic yet highly sophisticated and intricate form of movement.
A continues weight shift that takes a direction.
Touching the boarders of off balance as it stays centred.
Endless oppositions and spirals within a body as it moves forward.
Two bodies… as they walk together, patterns and shapes appear, subtle dynamics can be interpreted, images can be drawn, and narratives can form.
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Performance: Salma Salem & Aly Khamis
Live Music: Ahmed Saleh
Light design : Saber el Sayed
A production by Contemporary Dance Night 2018
co-produced By Dayer For artistic Production
Contemporary Danse Night 2018 Falaki Theatre and Bibliotheca Alexandrina Cairo Egypt,
Tanztage, Sophiensaele 2019 Berlin, Germany
Institute Du Monde Arab, Le Printemps De La Danse Arab, 2019 Paris, France
Multiple Reflections of inner flow
Portray is created with an urge to unravel the layers of a body through its reservoir. Tapping into time-less states of being through an inner grove, connecting through the bliss of letting go.
Portray is a continuation of Shoukry’s choreographic curiosity about inner movement, repetition, trans-formation and the action of shaking.
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Performance: Noura Seif
Live Music: Mohamed Shafik
Light design & Technical Director
: Saber el Sayed & Philip Mounir
Production: Dayer for Artistic Productions
Coproduction Dancing on the edge 2017
Residency and Rehearsals: Studio Feryal Cairo
D-caf Festival Cairo Egypt 2018
Dancing on the edge tour in the Netherlands 2017
Warhouse9 Copenhagen Stage Festival Denmark supported by the Danish Egyptian Dialogue institute in Egypt 2018
Testing the ability to recover from or adjust to…
Post our spring, post hoping for change: How can we keep going?
The Resilience of the Body is a solo about how to find continuity and perseverance in the world we live in today.
Choreography & Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
Sound: Open source
Light design: Saber el Sayed
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Production: Dayer for Artistic Productions
Coproduction Arab Arts Focus
Residency and Rehearsals: Cairo Contemporary Dance Center
Thanks to Mahmoud El Haddad for his Performance during the Fringe 2017
Nominated for ‘The Total Theatre Award/ The Place’ at The Edinburgh Fringe Arab Arts Focus,
Won Summerhall’s ‘Festival Special Moments Award’
The Edinburgh Fringe Arab Arts Focus- Dance double bill 2017
Dancing on the edge tour in the Netherlands 2017
D-caf Festival Cairo Egypt 2018
Warhouse9 Copenhagen Stage Festival Denmark supported by the Danish Egyptian Dialogue institute in Egypt 2018
Chicago Cultural Center 2018
Nuit Blanche Brussels Belgium 2018
Fondazione Feltrinelli Milano Welcome to Socotra Festival 2021
Together the Parts Tanzquartier Vienna 2022
Belfast international Arts Festival Ireland 2022
Traces
I'm just passing by, I might leave a trace behind or it might be blown by the wind.
I search for my axis between nature and the city, on unstable grounds.
Performance and choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Special thanks to the cast and crew of "Turning " 2014 for starting the work process with me.
Thanks to Nacera Beleza, Dalia el abd and Sultan Sherif for the inspiration of turning.
Nassim el Raqs 2016
on site chorographic research and creation
The map is (not) the territory
Mentorship : Nikolaus Gansterer
4 solo project with the participation of With Omar Adel, Marta Vallejo and Shaymaa Shoukry
Production : Momkin – espaces de possibles, with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum and the European Union.
May7komsh
A dance performance focusing on social judgment as a general theme. That adopts shaking as the main anchor for the choreographic research to trigger transformation though repetition and open the door to the versatile aspects of one woman.
Our society like many tends to stereotype and judge others. This work was created with an urge to highlight that viewpoint and proximity affect perspective, and that there is more to a being than what we see at first glance. An invitation to accept, were time is given to look beyond the skin and into the heart, to reveal the many shades and colors of one being, a woman, Sudanese, African, Arab, who dances and is not only one thing.
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Dance: Nagham Salah
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Technical Director and Light design: Saber el Sayed,
Light operator and co-designer: Philipe mounir
Set design: Ahmed Ashmawy
Costume design: Nermin Saeed
Stage Manager: Maram Abd Elmaqsoud
Technicians: Engiz crew
Dayer Production
Opening hosted by Townhouse Rawabet, within the framework of
D-CAF festival 2015
Cairo, Egypt
Hosted off 2 be continued lab and festival 2015
Shown in the AAF D-CAF 2016
Jesuit Alexandria 201
Dance in Response, Hamburg Germany 2016
Turning
Man … is a being alive by his dynamics, always moving and cycling.
This work aims to portray the idea of trial and continuity, mans’ drive to keep moving, an experience to be lived, on state of trance as we try, we fail, we try again, we repeat our trials over and over in a continuous state of existence and turning. We arrive to one point… yet we never settle… we keep moving on and trying again … maybe somewhere else maybe towards something else. For arriving is not the point, the journey is all that matters.
The chorographic research is on the action of turning as metaphor to the cycle of life; from the atom to the cosmos, the cycles of our bodies and our emotional cycles. Diving into this everlasting transcending repetitive movement that delivers the soul carried by the body into a suspended state of being we dig to find what makes us carry on in life.
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Performers: Aly Khamees, Nagham Salah Othman, Amna Magdy and Aya Fayed
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Light design: Saber Elsaed
Media: Emma Benany
Premier at falaki main stage Cairo Egypt 2014
Perfromed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina theatre
within the framework of Contemorary Dance Night
Special thanks to Nacera Belaza, Dalia El Abd and Sultan Mounir for the inspiration
Many thanks to Mohamed Sherif and Sedika Abou Seda for the moral support
And a very special thanks to MAAT/CCDC for their hospitality during the rehearsal period of the project
TT (PI)
This process of creation emerges from pure physical actions, evolving to take form and shape, from which stories could be told and ideas could be communicated.
Exploring a distinct state of being scary and sacred, generous and vulnerable.
Creating life through her inner universe… making her vibrant body a space that carries the future, as it walks into the unknown.
Performance: Mona Gamil
Music: Mahmoud Waly
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Contemporary dance night 2012 Falaki main stage
Where do we go from here... ?
Sharing personal stories…
Sharing a choreographic process…
Sharing a meeting point…
Choreography and Performance: Alaa Samman and Shaymaa Shoukry
Music: ‘500 police’ by Bikia
Light design: Feisal
Concept: Shaymaa Shoukry
A work in progress developed in a 10-day residency in the framework of Aat festival Amman 2012
Special thanks to: the Egyptian ministry of culture for sponsoring the travel expenses.
Thanks To: Shereen Zoumot’s House, The Music House, Arthur Murray, and Al Balad Theatre for their hospitality in Amman
And many thanks to all the team of Aat festival
Trying...
Breaking out of detachment
Breaking out of the system
Breaking the walls
Using the repetitive action of running into the wall to echo the social and political change we are trying to implement in Egypt
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Performance : Salma Abd El Salam, Rafaat Baioumy, Emma Benany, Mohamed Fouad, Shaymaa Shoukry, Aly Sobhy. with the participation of the rest of the festival artists and audience members in the finale of the performance.
Townhouse Rawabet 2012
Contemporary Dance night experimental edition-
Artists collectively volunteered to kick off the festival
Border
Performers… interacting with the multiple layers of the space, and the public to shed light on the different aspects of the sight…. The sea… the boats… the buildings … the promenade… the street… the borders… the limits… the harshness…the softness… and the other… how all these elements co-exist and create complex systems… our cities
Decomposing to recompose … the perception of our spaces and ourselves.
Redefining the borders that surround us.
Researching ways to introduce our physical presence in one of the public beaches of Alexandria using the language of contemporary dance to communicate with a the public. Researching the build up on the use of gestures to provide a reading of our bodies that is coherent for eyes with freshness to viewing dance in that form. We used music in the same way; where a familiar reference is introduced and then taken away, inviting audience to hear sounds that are more experimental and less familiar. The goal of our research was to share a vision and find a quality of presense that is not invasive on the neighborhood and is welcomed.
Music by Maurice Louca
Performance Aly Khamees, Mirette Micheal Mounir Said and Shaymaa Shoukry
Choreography Shaymaa Shoukry
The work was developed and shown within a residency hosted by Nassim el raqs first edition 2011 an on-site choreographic and interdisciplinary art creation festival.
Exit Does Not Exit
The city…
The boarders… the doors… and the bridges…
Is there a way to exit the economic-socio-political-global system?
What reality should we choose to live in?
Socially integrated? Politically aware? Up to speed with current events?
In harmony with Nature? In vivid lucid Dreams?
As we connect to one we disconnect from another… turning…
10 days before the uprising in Egypt started to take its course, the 15th of January 2011 was the closing night of “Exit Does Not Exit” in Cairo.
Exit does not Exit questions the level of detachment / attachment of our being in this life. Fluctuating between the various levels of perceiving reality, with its large spectrum. Questioning violence and the level of engagement in events of the ‘real’ world, verses virtual realities, alternative realties, and self-protective bubbles/realities. The process is a quest to find a frequency to encounter oneself and the other from a genuine position in the world today. 10 days later potential answers were presented to me, especially concerning how attached to be and which position to chose.
Exit Does Not Exit premiered in January 2011
at the Falaki theatre Cairo, Egypt within the frame work of the 3rd edition of “To be continued lab and festival” organized by Studio Emad Eddin Foundation (Sweden) and Orient Productions (Egypt).
‘Exit does not Exit’ has been chosen to Tour in the Netherlands as part of the co-productions program within the J.M. Liverato project that is a joint venture between Dancing On the Edge Festival in Holland, Studio Emad Eddin Foundation in Sweden and Orient Productions in Cairo.
December 2011 Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Den Hague
Dancers:
Ezzat Ezzat, Mirette Micheal, Mounir Said, Samar Ezzat, Ahmed el Guindy
Interactive media: Emma Benany
Music: Mahmoud Waly
Light Design: Ahmed Boraie, redesgined by Saber El Sayed
Set Design: Asmaa El Sharkawi
Costume Design: Shaymaa Shoukry
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Mentors of 2 be continued lab January 2011:
choreography :Laurence Rondoni
light desgin: Saed Samir
scenography: Hussain Baydon
Special thanks to Benoit Lachamber, Karima Mansour, George Bahna, Mohamed Sherif, Sedika Abu Seda
Special thanks to center national de la dance France for providing a research residency june 2011 for the departure point of the project
Rehearsal space provided by: The town house factory space, The American University in Cairo, The Cairo opera house (center of creativity, SEE Foundation
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You and Me... In Between
Could I lose myself into us, never finding me again?
The spaces between two people… how at each proximity the relationship changes. The common body of love verses individuality, the verticality of ONE in the relation between TWO.
Footage filmed by Dalia Abd El Aziz and Emma Benany
Concept, Performance, Sound composition and Video Editing by Shaymaa Shoukry
Special thanks to Sherif Kamel for his Presence
This work is a result of a Creation Residency offered by L’Officina in the framework of the Miniature project, Marseilles, France.
A live interaction with the image though physical presence, dance, and live painting took place during the performance.
Studio showing at l’officina
Premier at Fort Saint-Jean, Marseille Imaginez Maintenant Festival 2010
Time Cycles on a Landscape of a body
As time cycles we loose ourselves in the system we build for ourselves, Finding no more space to taste touch or feel. How could we break free from this loop? Could we find a way to revisit ourselves and the world around us? Without being the slave of time, but using it merely as a measuring unit. How could our bodies simply BE as a landscape that blends into our landscapes and cityscapes? Where does the quality of our verticality and presence in the context of life today stand? Researching for answers… through acknowledgment first...
Music: Alexander Mangel
Light: Saad Samir
Graphic Animation: Pouyan karbor
Video: Dalia Abd El Aziz and Shaymaa Shoukry
Choreography & Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
Special Thanks to: Sedika Abou Seda, Sherif Kamel, Laurence Rondoni, and SEE Foundation
Thanks to Dancing on the Edge Festival, the Netherlands for offering a residency that permitted the practical creation of this piece.
Showed in: Danswerkplaats Amsterdam, studio showing 2009
Penitents Blancs, Festival Hivernals Avignon 2010
Aat Festival Jordan el balad theatre 2012
Townhouse Rawabet 2015
Skin Quartette + 1
As life cycles, time goes by… and society dictates.
Time… a measuring unit… Does it rule us? How do we break free? Could we?
An enriching work process open to exchanging between the artists working on the piece. Focused on the perception of time and through it the perception of each artisits' life. Looking objectively at our patterns and testing ways to be more conscious of them and and transform them if needed.
Premiered at falaki main stage “2 be continued” festival second edition Dec. 2009 Egypt
Choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Performed by: Ezzat Ismail, Mirette Michal, Mounir Saeed, Samar Ezzat
Music composed and performed by: Hany Adel
Video: Dalia Abd El Aziz & Shaymaa Shoukry
Costumes & Set Design: Mariam Rafik & Sally Yousif
Light Design: Mohamed Nabil
Special Thanks to: Sedika Abu Seda, Mohamed Sherif, Laurence Rondoni, Dancing on the Edge Festival and SEE Foundation
Processing...
Researching a personal way to write dance. Exploring the idea of ‘fixed random probability’ and creating a system to write scores for dance, through that system. The dancer is free to interpret this information as they please according to the organic logic of their body together with finding ways to break habits. Once an interpretation is clear in the body, the dancer must relearn the movement they created.
This system was used as a choreographic writing tool in other projects; to create the first part of “Time Cycles on a landscape of a body” solo that evolved into “Skin quartette+1”
Choroegraphy and Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
Music : Maisie by Syd Barrett
Studio showing within the Cairo Contemporary Dance Workshop Program, Curated by Laurance Rondoni, Organized by Studio Emad El Din, Cairo 2008
Untitled... In Taz Palace
Sight specific performance researching ‘space’ primarily as a point of departure for creating a dialogue.
Looking at the different architectural levels of viewing a performer / a performance and how this influences the perception. Keeping an element of play in this exploration.
A happening in Amir Taz Palace, Egypt 2008
Curated by Filippo Armati
Supported by Pro Helvetia.
