About:
Shaymaa Shoukry is a multidisciplinary artist, who is passionate about choreographing, performing and creating video art. Shoukry studied Visual Arts and Theatre at AUC and dance at the Center of Creativity at Cairo Opera House School. From 2008-2011, Shoukry attended the Contemporary Dance Program at Studio Emad Eddin (SEE), followed by Seeds, Training for Dance Teaching from 2012-2014. She has had the pleasure to perform, share her choreographic work and be hosted as a resident artist on a regional and international level. Inspired by collective work, she hopes to develop her personal work in an organic build-up process, whereby each project paves the way for the next. Shoukry consistently questions her approaches so as to share her artistic practice with diverse audiences. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Dayer for Artistic Productions, a company for artistic productions based in Egypt.
Previous Work:
Choreography:
– Untitled… (2008)
– Processing… (2008)
– Skin Quartette +1 (2009)
– The Cycles on a Landscape of a Body (2009)
– You and Me… In Between (2010)
– Exit Does Not Exit (2011)
– Border (2011)
– Trying (2012)
– Where do we go from here… ? (2012)
– TT (PI) (2012)
– Turning (2014)
– May7komsh (2015)
– Traces (2016)
– The Resilience of the Body (2017)
– Portray (2017)
Video Art/Video Dance/Installation
– Me Myself and I (2007)
– Shadows (2009)
– You and Me… in between (2010)
– Seen (2011)
Performance:
– Duet (2004)
– Life Vest under Your Seat (2006)
– Figures and Practice (2009)
– Open Doors I (2009)
– Landscape and Body Tourism (2009)
– Open Doors II (2010)
– Everybody knows nobody knows (2012-2013)
– Running Nucleus (2014)
– Cactus Flower (2016)
Acting:
– Al jam3a (2011)
– Fo’ Mostawa El Shobohat (2016)
– Ta’ Eshrab Shay (2017)
– El Hala G (2017)
– 30 Days (2017)