nasa4nasa - 'Promises' (guests Martha Kirszenbaum)

Rethought for the Art Explora Festival, the performance Promises is an improvisational score in which two bodies attempt to choreograph a listening field of sensitive composition. The nasa4nasa duo explore the limits of temporality, creating a unity in which failure is expected. Promises investigates the search for intimacy in relation to time, an aspiration to slow down the end. It is also a work in which two dancing bodies explore symmetrical traces as a mode of proximity. nasa4nasa explores the desire to be synchronized and desynchronized, together but apart, as a constantly ephemeral promise.  

This work is meant to be seen as a leaning entity, marked by both disjunction and continuity, synchronicity and difference. The duets take place in a dance studio that acts as a stage, seeing the work as a progression, a scene among different scenes, a liminal space of connection.

nasa4nasa

nasa4nasa is a Cairo-based dance collective co-founded in 2016 by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma Abdel Salam. Primarily active on Instagram, the duo's work explores image-making and online presence as their ongoing dance practice. nasa4nasa has performed at Impulstanz, Festival de Marseille, Gypsum Gallery, Gwangju Biennale, Rawabet Cairo, DCaf festival Zuricher Theater Spektakel, Fondazione Fertinelli and Dream City. nasa4nasa has received the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Award , Mophradat Consortium Fund and GPS Global Practice Sharing.