NASA4NASA - SHAM3DAN
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‘Sham3dan’ is a dance performance in which dancers call on ghosts of their predecessors as they harness the magnetic fields they create collectively. This performance draws on the history of the Sham3dan dance in Egypt and the shifts it has undergone across the years.
The work premises the founding mothers of this dance as the ghosts that have carried on the dance to our present. The fictions surrounding their lives always highlighting the sacrifice of dance.
‘Sham3dan’ highlights systems of power in choreography, revealing the commitment and violence of its mastery while seeking to form new assemblages of remembrance.
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nasa4nasa (est. 2016, Cairo) is a dance collective in Cairo co-founded by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma AbdelSalam. Housed primarily on Instagram, they explore image-making and online presence as their ongoing dance practice. In 2025, their performance ‘Sham3dan (Candelabra)’ had its international premiere at Art Basel (Unlimited) presented by Gypsum Gallery (Cairo), Belluard Bollwerk (Fribourg, Switzerland), Festival de Marseille, Next Festival, and Bozar. In 2026, Promises was performed at Sonsbeek, Arnhem. In 2025, ‘Promises’ was performed at My Wild Flag, Stockholm and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, and in 2024, at venues including Art Explora Festival, Marseille and 99 Canal, New York. ‘NO MERCY’ premiered at Rawabet Cairo in 2022, and was performed at venues including Danspace Project, New York, 2024; Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zurich, 2023; Dream City, Tunis, 2023; and D-CAF Festival, Cairo, 2022. In 2018, their debut ‘SUASH’ premiered at Next Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium and MDT Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, and in 2019, was performed at Maadi Sporting Club, Cairo and Young Choreographers’ Series, ImPulsTanz, Vienna. In 2019, ‘End of Times’ premiered at Gypsum and was adapted for Movement Research Festival, Judson Church, New York, 2022. They have participated in group exhibitions including the 2021 13th Gwangju Biennale’s Live Organ’s Online Commission with Promises b2b, a video series screened at Lafayette Anticipations in 2025.
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