When Sleep Enfolded Her

Almost full moon in an arid mountain landscape. A young woman waters her flowering plants. She is at one with her silence. When sleep enfolds her on the broken earth, she is transposed home.

• Amina Abouelghar is a dancer and choreographer based between Brussels and Cairo. She graduated from the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center and has co-created the Cairo-based dance duet Nafaq. Her work has been shown in several festivals such as NEXT, Festival de Marseille, Indiscipline Festival, etc... In 2023, she worked on her first solo Young Dreams along with Swiss-Iraqi musician Laure Betris. At the moment, she is working on her next piece Birds Cries, an ode to rhythms, composition, and improvisation.