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mona el husseiniDANCER &#38;amp; VISUAL ARTIST


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	ABOUT
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	about me

Mona El Husseini is a dancer and visual artist, based between Montreal and Cairo. She completed her dance education at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC) in Egypt and studied International Business and Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. 
Since 2018, Mona has been choreographing and performing her own projects and dancing for other choreographers. Most recently she danced for Zab Maboungou / Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata as part of Mozongi Traces et Memoires Boite Chorégraphique in collaboration with La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, and performed Mozongi&#38;nbsp; in Yellowknife. She has also danced for MAAT dance company by Karima Mansour in Cairo and has collaborated with other choreographers such as Camille Lacelle Wisley, Meryem Alaoui,&#38;nbsp; Libertad Pozo Rodriguez, and Olivier Dubois in Cairo and Montreal. She teaches contemporary dance, barre, and pilates in professional training programs and open-level workshops. Her pieces have been performed in Egypt, Germany, Italy, and Canada and in 2023 she was the recipient of the CAM+MAI joint support fellowship in dance. Her dance vocabulary is influenced by a decade-long training in Shaolin Kung Fu and Aikido as well as traditional Congolese and West African dance and In 2023, Mona premiered Creatrix, a dance duet with her mother, and published Family Portraits, a graphic memoir and visual art series at the MAI (Montréal, Arts Interculturels), and presented them at the IFE (Institut Français d’Egypte) in Alexandria and Cairo the following year. She is currently developing Monday or Tuesday, a dance solo, and Rabbet Manzel // House Goddess, a visual art series. 
In 2018, Mona had a performing role in When Arabs Danced, a TIFF- and FIFA-featured documentary film by Jawad Rhalib, and in 2024, she was the lead actress in Clermont-Ferrand featured short film ‘Mango’ by director Randa Ali. She was the choreographer of ‘Mama,’ a theatre piece by Nathalie Doummar, which was presented in 2022 at Théâtre Duceppe and at Festival Juste Pour Rire in Montreal.


Artistic Approach

In her artistic process, Mona goes beyond dance and traces the thread that connects the different art forms she practices including visual arts and writing. She is fascinated by the tangible and intangible layers that move a body and is interested in how stories are transmitted, shared, and told through the body across generations. She finds magic in the mundane and fosters intergenerational collaborations with artists and non-artists alike. She continues to search for dance in the encounter between the intimate and the collective, the traditional and the contemporary, and in the space where the inner and outer meet.


creditsPHOTO 02 BY: Hana Gamal
WEBSITE BY: Valerie Arif &#38;amp; Mariam Khattab


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	CREATRIX
CONTEMPORARY DANCE, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE 
WORK IN PROGRESS //&#38;nbsp;2020 - ONGOING
&#38;gt; &#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;Collaborators:Choreographer: Mona El Husseini
Performers: Hala Farahat + Mona El Husseini
Dramaturg: Fatma Sarah El Kashef
Music Composition: Wael Kodeih + Love &#38;amp; Revenge

Light Designer: Nien-Tzu Weng 
Techinical Director: Darah Miah
Costume Design Consultant:&#38;nbsp;Sophie El-Assaad&#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Supported by:
Montréal, Arts Interculturels (MAI), Conseil des Arts de Montréal (CAM), Canada Council for the Arts 
&#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Residencies:
Studio303 Residency, Centre de Création O Vertigo (CCOV), CAM+MAI Alliance Joint Support 
&#38;gt; &#38;nbsp;  Exhibitions &#38;amp; Events:
Montréal, Arts Interculturels: Season 2023 - 2024 Programming 


Creatrix* is a dance duet in collaboration with my mother, Hala - a medical doctor, science teacher, and mother of three - who is not trained in dance.


Using tokens, photos, and letters passed down across generations, we reflect on our past, where we come from and where we now find ourselves... We move through our genealogy in an attempt to better understand ourselves -&#38;nbsp; and each other - by getting to know those who came before us.
 

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We visit home in our fluid memories and vivid childhoods. We try to touch all that is fleeting and step on the intangible rhythms that animate our heritage. We bring our opposing worlds to one another and search for the common denominator between art and science, motherhood and girlhood, past and present. My mother always says she wants to write her memoir, so may this dance count as a prelude.


In Creatrix we ask: How do we give voice to stories suppressed within us? Can we ever consolidate the totality of our fragmented identity? Where do we meet and where do we part? And how do we collaboratively give voice to our shared past?
&#38;nbsp;

*definition: a female who brings forth or produces; a mother. A female founder, authoress, creatrix.


creditsPHOTOS BY: Roxanne Ross, Kimura Boyl / VIDEO 001 BY: Siam Obregon &#38;amp; MUSIC BY: Wael Kodeih

    
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	&#38;lt;  &#38;nbsp; previous project &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;
	&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; next project &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;gt;

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		<title>Projects</title>
				
		<link>https://monaelhusseini.com/Projects-6</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:31:42 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mona El Husseini</dc:creator>

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&#60;img width="1795" height="1730" width_o="1795" height_o="1730" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ece208c3eb4010100231dd3ff720ea8b86057abd62d6ece5abe83a9ed2c49cc8/Artboard-21300x.png" data-mid="193178683" border="0" data-draggable data-rotation="-17.5" alt="creatrix DANCE, THEATRE,PERFORMANCE" data-caption="creatrix &#38;lt;p style=&#38;quot;font-family: Nitti Grotesk&#38;quot;&#38;gt;DANCE, THEATRE,&#38;lt;br&#38;gt;PERFORMANCE&#38;lt;/p&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ece208c3eb4010100231dd3ff720ea8b86057abd62d6ece5abe83a9ed2c49cc8/Artboard-21300x.png" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1064" height="1519" width_o="1064" height_o="1519" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d09c8a67fad31fc4f707acac40080417acf606472503318051b880682e18d33b/Artboard-28300x.png" data-mid="193178687" border="0" data-draggable data-rotation="-5" alt="FAMILY PORTRAITS  VISUAL ARTS" data-caption="FAMILY PORTRAITS &#38;lt;br&#38;gt; &#38;lt;p style=&#38;quot;font-family: Nitti Grotesk&#38;quot;&#38;gt;VISUAL ARTS&#38;lt;/p&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d09c8a67fad31fc4f707acac40080417acf606472503318051b880682e18d33b/Artboard-28300x.png" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1102" height="1372" width_o="1102" height_o="1372" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/657ac2b54448958ebd8108977d05ce1c5fd0ea142076c5a9668c9e0b3e47e2c7/Artboard-22300x.png" data-mid="193178684" border="0" data-draggable alt="MONDAY OR TUESDAY  DANCE, PERFORMANCE" data-caption="MONDAY OR TUESDAY &#38;lt;br&#38;gt; &#38;lt;p style=&#38;quot;font-family: Nitti Grotesk&#38;quot;&#38;gt;DANCE, PERFORMANCE&#38;lt;/p&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/657ac2b54448958ebd8108977d05ce1c5fd0ea142076c5a9668c9e0b3e47e2c7/Artboard-22300x.png" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1261" height="1462" width_o="1261" height_o="1462" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1d4b436afda162c0b636510987776854bad403050c2f2bcd64d88c20d87f881/Artboard-23300x.png" data-mid="193178686" border="0" data-draggable alt="Rabbet Manzel // House GoddessVISUAL ARTS" data-caption="Rabbet Manzel // &#38;lt;br&#38;gt;House Goddess&#38;lt;p style=&#38;quot;font-family: Nitti Grotesk&#38;quot;&#38;gt;VISUAL ARTS&#38;lt;/p&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1d4b436afda162c0b636510987776854bad403050c2f2bcd64d88c20d87f881/Artboard-23300x.png" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1737" height="1351" width_o="1737" height_o="1351" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7324e521af6449d99ba0bbe984cb1e791e406d067a28a63002db4ed52ed221ba/Artboard-18.1300x.png" data-mid="193178678" border="0" data-draggable data-rotation="2" alt="Morning questions RESEARCH, MOVEMENT CLASSES" data-caption="Morning questions &#38;lt;p style=&#38;quot;font-family: Nitti Grotesk&#38;quot;&#38;gt;RESEARCH, MOVEMENT CLASSES&#38;lt;/p&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7324e521af6449d99ba0bbe984cb1e791e406d067a28a63002db4ed52ed221ba/Artboard-18.1300x.png" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1626" height="1258" width_o="1626" height_o="1258" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/704169cd52ffafede3bf9aeed956e6237b97e77253cfb53eb55063712388801f/Artboard-20300x.png" data-mid="193178680" border="0" data-rotation="5" alt="Rhythmanalysis DANCE, INSTALLATION,VIDEO" data-caption="Rhythmanalysis &#38;lt;p style=&#38;quot;font-family: Nitti Grotesk&#38;quot;&#38;gt;DANCE, INSTALLATION,&#38;lt;br&#38;gt;VIDEO&#38;lt;/p&#38;gt;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/704169cd52ffafede3bf9aeed956e6237b97e77253cfb53eb55063712388801f/Artboard-20300x.png" /&#62;
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		<title>About Me 2026 copy</title>
				
		<link>https://monaelhusseini.com/About-Me-2026-copy</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:34:59 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mona El Husseini</dc:creator>

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	ABOUT
	&#60;img width="2801" height="2507" width_o="2801" height_o="2507" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca18799a74a20b8aeba5b95858379d388d8ee48b85e3a6eda74f725fa3c1154/Artboard-314x.png" data-mid="244889427" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aca18799a74a20b8aeba5b95858379d388d8ee48b85e3a6eda74f725fa3c1154/Artboard-314x.png" /&#62;
	

	about me

Mona El Husseini is a dancer and visual artist, based between Montreal and Cairo. She completed her dance education at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC) in Egypt and studied International Business and Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. 
Since 2018, Mona has been choreographing and performing her own projects and dancing for other choreographers. Most recently she danced for Zab Maboungou / Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata as part of Mozongi Traces et Memoires Boite Chorégraphique in collaboration with La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, and performed Mozongi&#38;nbsp; in Yellowknife. She has also danced for MAAT dance company by Karima Mansour in Cairo and has collaborated with other choreographers such as Camille Lacelle Wisley, Meryem Alaoui,&#38;nbsp; Libertad Pozo Rodriguez, and Olivier Dubois in Cairo and Montreal. She teaches contemporary dance, barre, and pilates in professional training programs and open-level workshops. Her pieces have been performed in Egypt, Germany, Italy, and Canada and in 2023 she was the recipient of the CAM+MAI joint support fellowship in dance. Her dance vocabulary is influenced by a decade-long training in Shaolin Kung Fu and Aikido as well as traditional Congolese and West African dance and In 2023, Mona premiered Creatrix, a dance duet with her mother, and published Family Portraits, a graphic memoir and visual art series at the MAI (Montréal, Arts Interculturels), and presented them at the IFE (Institut Français d’Egypte) in Alexandria and Cairo the following year. She is currently developing Monday or Tuesday, a dance solo, and Rabbet Manzel // House Goddess, a visual art series. 
In 2018, Mona had a performing role in When Arabs Danced, a TIFF- and FIFA-featured documentary film by Jawad Rhalib, and in 2024, she was the lead actress in Clermont-Ferrand featured short film ‘Mango’ by director Randa Ali. She was the choreographer of ‘Mama,’ a theatre piece by Nathalie Doummar, which was presented in 2022 at Théâtre Duceppe and at Festival Juste Pour Rire in Montreal.


Artistic Approach

In her artistic process, Mona goes beyond dance and traces the thread that connects the different art forms she practices including visual arts and writing. She is fascinated by the tangible and intangible layers that move a body and is interested in how stories are transmitted, shared, and told through the body across generations. She finds magic in the mundane and fosters intergenerational collaborations with artists and non-artists alike. She continues to search for dance in the encounter between the intimate and the collective, the traditional and the contemporary, and in the space where the inner and outer meet.


creditsPHOTO 02 BY: Hana Gamal
WEBSITE BY: Valerie Arif &#38;amp; Mariam Khattab


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		<title>Family Portraits</title>
				
		<link>https://monaelhusseini.com/Family-Portraits</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mona El Husseini</dc:creator>

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	FAMILY PORTRAITSVISUAL ARTS, ZINE, GRAPHIC MEMOIRWORK IN PROGRESS // 2021 - 2023


&#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  Collaborators:Consultant/Mentor: Jenny Lin &#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  Supported by:Montréal, Arts Interculturels (MAI), Conseil des Arts de Montréal (CAM), Canada Council for the Arts &#38;gt; &#38;nbsp;  Exhibitions &#38;amp; Events:Montréal, Arts Interculturels: Season 2023 - 2024 Programming&#38;nbsp;

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Family Portraits is my first attempt at a graphic memoir. It was born out of Creatrix, a dance and theatre performance, where my mother and I share stories about our upbringing. My mom tells me about her ancestors - whom I’ve never met - and I archive her tales.

In the winter of 2021 I began to document those anecdotes in a playful practice that combines words with drawing. I started painting portraits of my family members as a way to grow closer to them and I wrote my memories of them in a child-like voice that echoes my happy childhood. Every Monday, I would email a completed page of Family Portraits to a group of close family and friends. I created 20 pages by the end of the winter, which made up the first volume.

&#60;img width="2496" height="1617" width_o="2496" height_o="1617" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfde694baa9758b304a1551dec19919684d95c40b2bcf6073805b086912dceab/Artboard-7300x.png" data-mid="193154640" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfde694baa9758b304a1551dec19919684d95c40b2bcf6073805b086912dceab/Artboard-7300x.png" /&#62;I feel closely connected to those who are no longer here. I am moved by an urge to savour the disappearing. To save them from fading out of life, after their death. Perhaps it is because one of my fears is to be set aside and deemed irrelevant, not once I’m dead, but while I’m still here.
It is not because I miss them that I celebrate them, but because I want their company. I want them to guide me... to speak to me through the world of images, words, colors, and lines. There is always a trace - how clearly I want to reveal it is a choice. And I choose to reveal their traces in real and imagined ways.
 

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After a hiatus I took up the practice again in the winter of 2023 and completed a second volume. In November of that year,&#38;nbsp;Family Portraits was self-published as a book and the portraits were exhibited at the Montréal, Arts Interculturels (MAI) café-bar, alongside our performance of Creatrix. The project is a dedication to the ones who passed, and the ones who still play.


The book was sold at the Montreal, Arts Interculturels (MAI) and Maktaba bookshop in Montreal, and is currently sold personally through me.


Dear you, 

If you are receiving this then you are on my list of people I like to share myself with. Following the footsteps of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), I have chosen a list of close ones to share what I call ‘Family Portraits’; scribbles of image and text that are not entirely limited to family... or portraits. 

You'll receive a weekly email every Monday. I don't expect a reply so do not feel pressured to react; this is merely an exercise for me to create, to share, to expose layers of myself, and to make Mondays more exciting. 

That said, I welcome any sort of feedback with open eyes, heart and toes. 

Happy viewing!
- Mona


GALLERY


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	&#38;lt;  &#38;nbsp; previous project &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;
	&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; next project &#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;&#38;gt;

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		<title>Projects</title>
				
		<link>https://monaelhusseini.com/Projects-5</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:31:47 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>About Me 2026 copy copy</title>
				
		<link>https://monaelhusseini.com/About-Me-2026-copy-copy</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mona El Husseini</dc:creator>

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	ABOUT
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	about me

Mona El Husseini is a dancer and visual artist, based between Montreal and Cairo. She completed her dance education at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC) in Egypt and studied International Business and Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. 
Since 2018, Mona has been choreographing and performing her own projects and dancing for other choreographers. Most recently she danced for Zab Maboungou / Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata as part of Mozongi Traces et Memoires Boite Chorégraphique in collaboration with La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault, and performed Mozongi&#38;nbsp; in Yellowknife. She has also danced for MAAT dance company by Karima Mansour in Cairo and has collaborated with other choreographers such as Camille Lacelle Wisley, Meryem Alaoui,&#38;nbsp; Libertad Pozo Rodriguez, and Olivier Dubois in Cairo and Montreal. She teaches contemporary dance, barre, and pilates in professional training programs and open-level workshops. Her pieces have been performed in Egypt, Germany, Italy, and Canada and in 2023 she was the recipient of the CAM+MAI joint support fellowship in dance. Her dance vocabulary is influenced by a decade-long training in Shaolin Kung Fu and Aikido as well as traditional Congolese and West African dance and In 2023, Mona premiered Creatrix, a dance duet with her mother, and published Family Portraits, a graphic memoir and visual art series at the MAI (Montréal, Arts Interculturels), and presented them at the IFE (Institut Français d’Egypte) in Alexandria and Cairo the following year. She is currently developing Monday or Tuesday, a dance solo, and Rabbet Manzel // House Goddess, a visual art series. 
In 2018, Mona had a performing role in When Arabs Danced, a TIFF- and FIFA-featured documentary film by Jawad Rhalib, and in 2024, she was the lead actress in Clermont-Ferrand featured short film ‘Mango’ by director Randa Ali. She was the choreographer of ‘Mama,’ a theatre piece by Nathalie Doummar, which was presented in 2022 at Théâtre Duceppe and at Festival Juste Pour Rire in Montreal.


Artistic Approach

In her artistic process, Mona goes beyond dance and traces the thread that connects the different art forms she practices including visual arts and writing. She is fascinated by the tangible and intangible layers that move a body and is interested in how stories are transmitted, shared, and told through the body across generations. She finds magic in the mundane and fosters intergenerational collaborations with artists and non-artists alike. She continues to search for dance in the encounter between the intimate and the collective, the traditional and the contemporary, and in the space where the inner and outer meet.


creditsPHOTO 02 BY: Hana Gamal
WEBSITE BY: Valerie Arif &#38;amp; Mariam Khattab


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		<title>Monday or Tuesday</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:55:52 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Mona El Husseini</dc:creator>

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	MONDAY OR TUESDAY
CONTEMPORARY DANCE, PERFORMANCE 
WORK IN PROGRESS // 2021 - ONGOING
&#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  Collaborators:Dramaturgical Consultant: Francesca Pedullà
Outside Eye: Karima Mansour
Musician: Zizi Ibrahim &#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  Supported by:
Canada Council for the Arts, LOJIQ
&#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  Residencies: 
Circuit-Est (2022), Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC, 2022 - 2023), ArtsUnite UnMute Residency (2021)
&#38;gt;&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;  Exhibitions &#38;amp; Events: 
upRising Up Festival (Puglia, Italy, 2022), Bancs d’essai (Circuit-Est, Montréal, 2022), Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC, 2023)&#38;nbsp;
 

This solo quest is inspired by the cyclical repetition of time and the transformations that unfold in moments of transition, in the realm of the in-between. 
Monday or Tuesday is an honest revelation of my inner world. It is a memoir told through my body. At once a celebration and recognition of my female figure, this dance sheds a light on critical phases of transition such as coming of age in 90’s Cairo and growing into womanhood in 2010’s Montreal, and somehow existing in a liminal space that is neither fully here nor quite there.

In a choreographed rite of passage, I re-live those moments of transition that have cradled and centered me from girlhood to womanhood. On this quest, I summon an ancient grandmotherly wisdom to guide and ground me. Reflecting on my relationship to home, my body being the steadiest one, I seek a truth that encompasses polarities, borders, and divisions, a center that exists between my two limbs. There, I find a pelvis. 
Following the footsteps of many authors and artists, I keep a journal - the earliest of which dates back to the year 2000. In a process akin to psychoanalysis and intentional confrontation, I use my 52 journals from the past two decades as sources of self-reflection, triggers of memory,&#38;nbsp; and tools for reliving, understanding, and forgiving my past. I go back in time to find my presence on an ever-shifting ground. I befriend the contrasts within me and attempt to balance them. I grieve many deaths and welcome many births, including parts of my own self. Encountering a rhythm that opens and closes, I expose intimate vulnerabilities and unveil layers of femininity, so I may eventually celebrate the entirety of my fragmented self. While animated by waves of intensity,&#38;nbsp; the impalpability of the past, memory, and dreams,&#38;nbsp; this solo is also concerned with the rituals of the everyday and the events that fall on a given “Monday or Tuesday”. The pages of my journals document my unyielding child-like search for magic which the monotony of a Monday followed by a Tuesday fails to muffle. 

“Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being ‘like this’. Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there...”
&#38;nbsp;
- Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction
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Monday or Tuesday was presented as a work in progress at Bancs d’essai, Circuit-Est in Montreal, upRising Up Festival in Puglia, and more recently at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center following a residency in collaboration with live musician Zizi Ibrahim.


creditsPHOTOS BY: Roxanne Ross, Sima Ajlyakin, Adriano / VIDEO 001 BY: Hazem Madbouly &#38;amp; MUSIC BY: Youssef Abouzeid / VIDEO 002 &#38;amp; MUSIC BY: Youssef Abouzeid / ILLUSTRATION BY: Laila Ait B.
 

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