Short Performances Series by Adham Hafez
March 6, Factory Space 7:00 pm

While performance can sometimes be seen as the “embodiment of concepts” rather than a “representational format”, a short performance brings this embodiment of concept into some pictorial realm. With stillness, iconic postures, and very short duration, the performances here become more of a “slide show” of snapshots of different embodiments. The body of the performer here becomes both the subject, the object, the concept embodied and the playground of all of this.

 Adham Hafez develops this SPS evening as a response to the question about “how visual is dance and performance?” In this series, reduction is used as strategy, both in duration sense, and in the execution; metaphor- process- product relations

Adham Hafez
Engaged in a lot of practice and theory around semiotics, rituals, post-medium practices, site-specificity, new choreographic systems and hybrid forms, Adham creates dance performances, concerts, installations, publications, lectures, workshops, and what’s in between. He has produced a large body of works through “Adham Hafez Company” which has been presented in Egypt, the Middle East, and Europe. Educated in Western Classical Music, Opera Singing, Contemporary Dance, Literature and Critical Theory at the Cairo Opera House, The Faculty of Musical Education in Helwan University, The Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University, Voice Studio of Professor Dr. Neveen Allouba, and is currently enrolled at Amsterdam High School of Arts for the unique Masters program AMCh

Adham Hafez is the founder and program director of HaRaKa, the first movement research project in Egypt, and was awarded First Prize for Choreography by the Ministry of Culture and the Cairo Opera House, several Certificates of Excellence as a musician and dancer, recipient of several fellowships and awards in Egypt, Europe and the US. Member of the “Conseil International de la Danse- CID-UNESCO”, grantee of the International Visitors Leadership Program from the United States, and was chosen as Young Performing Arts Entrepreneur by the British Council in Egypt


Source : The Town House Gallery