Performing Trauma. Valeska-Gert-Gastprofessur Nora Amin

Lecture

Writer, theatre director and choreographer Nora Amin is a founding member of the Modern Dance Theatre Company at The Cairo Opera House, director of Lamusica Independent Theatre Group and has published on theatre and human rights. Her seminar in the context of the visiting professorship will deal with dance as a medium of political resistance, transformation and healing. Together with the students, Amin will study the physicality connected to traumatic experiences and explore performative practices of representation.

In cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and DAAD.

Monday, 7 May 2018

6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Opening lecture with Nora Amin, Gabriele Brandstetter, Thomas Engel, Nele Hertling

In cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and DAAD

In English

Free admission