One of her recent projects is The National Project for Theatre of the Oppressed where she trains units of Forum theatre activists all over Egypt. She is the author of Theatre for change: from the internal to the external, 2007. Amin is the author of the first Arabic book on theatre and human rights Egyptian Theatre and Human Rights: the art of claiming our right under the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, 2003, and instructed the first storytelling workshop for women victims of the civil war in Sudan in cooperation with SIHA network. She published three novels, four collections of short stories, an audio book, and translated 15 books on theatre and dance. In 2000 she founded the independent theater group Lamusica and was the artistic director of the first international independent arts festival Jadayel in 2002.
After that Amin moved to work as an actress in lead roles at the Hanager Arts Center till 2002.
She started her professional stage career as a professional dancer and a founding member at the Modern Dance Company of the Cairo Opera House (1993/94). She is a writer, performer, choreographer and theatre director and has worked as a teacher at the Academy of the Arts in Cairo for nine years. NORA AMIN studied French and comparative literature and has worked Nora Amin lives and works in Cairo.
Her latest publication is her essay Migrating the Feminine (60pages, MiCT, 2016), which deals with the role of the female body in public space, exemplified through the violent incidents in Tahrir square. She is the author of several dramas, short stories and novels. She was a fellow of the Academy of the Arts of the World in 2015. In 2004 she held the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship at the FU Berlin. She also founded the performance group La Musica, initiated a theater festival and is a founding member of the Modern Dance Company at the Cairo Opera House. After completing her studies of French and comparative literature, she worked as an assistant at the Academy of Arts in Cairo. NORA AMIN is a woman of letters as well as a dancer and director. To be an astronaut and astronomer at the same time.
The question is always: How can I put that luxury to use? The broader question is how to best engage with systems? I would like to be able to look at things up close and from afar, from the personal and micropolitics to the universal language of art (if such a thing exists). It also made it easier for me to move between systems, therefore I am afforded with the chance to choose what, when and how I contribute. It is formulated into installations, videos, audio, gigs, happenings, events, or anything.Īs an artist, I always consider how I can function within my surrounding realities. The closest I may come is to say that my practice is trans-disciplinary and exists on the intersection of sound/music, DIY engineering, research, biohacking, activism and more. It depends on the context how I engage with those systems, from preserving to initiating, intervening, supporting, negotiating, hacking, questioning, etc. Most, if not all, of my practice derive from rhythms and systems. I am fascinated by the fact that even small interventions can change something to form new sustainable support systems.
For me, all things are connected: from the atomic level to larger social structures.