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Adham Hafez, based in Cairo, is engaged in practice and theory around rituals, site-specificity, new choreographic systems, physical dramaturgy, cultural policy and new artistic hybrid forms. Adham creates dance performances, concerts, lectures, installations, and workshops. He has produced a large body of work through Adham Hafez Company, which has been presented in Egypt, the Middle East and Europe. He holds his MDA degree in Choreography from the Amsterdam Theatre School (AHK/ The Netherlands). He is the founder and programme director of HaRaKa, the first movement and performance research project in Egypt, as well as the artistic director for the „TransDance“ festival series and the founder of "Cairography", the first publication in Egypt dedicated to critical writing on choreography and performance. He is the first Egyptian fellow invited to join the International Society of Performing Arts 'ISPA' (NY), he was awarded First Prize for Choreography by the Cairo Opera House, Egyptian Ministry of Culture, he was awarded certificates of Merit and Excellence by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Helwan University, as choreographer and as musician, and he is the grantee of US Leadership Program. He was selected the "Performing Arts Entrepreneur of the Year" by the British Council in 2008. Adham is a fellow and member of the International Society of Performing Arts (New York) and UNESCO's International Dance Council (Paris / Athens). Currently, he teaches contemporary dance and performance theory at the American University in Cairo, and has just completed the first book ever written on transmission of physical information and dance education in the Arab World, to be published in 2013.
22.05.2013
