About the artists:
Misan Miso Samara is a Palestinian dancer, actress, and creator whose body speaks in poetry. Trained between her homeland, New York, and Los Angeles, she weaves stories of resilience, grief, and liberation. She develops her own works and collaborates with artists worldwide, shown locally and internationally. She invites audiences to experience dance where words fall short, carrying the existence of oneself & memory through her storytelling.
Nur Garabli is a Palestinian choreographer, dancer, curator, and artistic director. She holds a B.Ed. in Dance and Education from Kibbutzim College. Her work sits at the intersection of dance, activism, and somatic practice. As an independent artist, she develops contemporary dabke that blends tradition with experimentation.Her performances and workshops explore liberation, de-colonization, resistance, and the continuity of heritage. Nur reclaims public and performative space through the body, engaging personal, social and political themes.
Mohanad Smama is a Palestinian dancer and choreographer from Gaza, and one of the pioneers of contemporary dance in his city. He founded the first contemporary dance studio in Gaza and is the founder of Hayy Contemporary Arts Group. With extensive experience in both contemporary dance and Palestinian folklore, he works on developing training methodologies related to movement. Mohanad has produced a number of artistic works that address social issues, and is currently working on how different art forms can be integrated into his artistic work.
Jassem Hindi (Palestinian born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) is a sound artist and choreographer. His work concerns the bond between haunting and hospitality. His latest dance pieces Laundry of Legends & Sun Eaters look at how to inhabit and survive very long cycles of violence. How to dance in times of war? He works with ruins of folk dances accompanied by death poems from West Asia and Scandinavia (Etel Adnan, Aase Berg, Tor Ulven, Laila Malik). Jassem’s work is shown internationally, and his collaborations have won numerous awards and nominations. His recent collaborators are Mia Habib, Harald Beharie, Ofelia Ortega, Ligia Lewis, Keith Hennessy, Sina Seifee, Clara Furey, Simon Portigal, Justin de Luna. Hindi also gives lectures and workshops internationally, on utopia, betrayal, folk dance and politics, and the concepts of hospitality and hauntology in philosophy. He is the recipient of the KORO grant for public art - on behalf of The Palestinian Agency, a project between Jenin and Norway.
Amir Sabra is a dancer and choreographer who was born in Nablus, Palestine and is based in Dublin. Still closely connected to his native country, he is director of the Palestinian dance company Stereo48. While his practice is rooted in breakdance, he combines traditional and contemporary dance in his shows. Amir holds a master's degree in contemporary dance and performance from Limerick University in Ireland. His first solo work, Within this Party, is an improvised dance performance inspired by dabke and hip hop that premiered in 2022, and will also be shown during Praxisfesivalen this year at Dansens hus.
Farah Saleh is a Palestinian dancer, choreographer and scholar based in Scotland. She has collaborated with companies danced with a number of choreographers in Palestine and internationally, such as Les Ballets C de la B and Candoco Dance Company. Farah also has extensive experience teaching dance, coordinating and curating artistic projects, including the Sareyyet Ramallah Summer Dance School, which she co-founded in 2016. Farah has won several international awards for her choreographic work, including the dance prize at the Palest’In and Out Festival in Paris for the duet La Même. In 2023, she completed her practice-based PhD at Edinburgh College of Art, and is currently a senior lecturer in Global Majority Performance at Glasgow University alongside her work as a dancer and choreographer.
