HaRaKa

National Network
Égypte
Address

1 Ahmed Shokry, Tahrir Square
Cairo
Égypte

Telephone
+201223714700
E-Mail
haraka.project@gmail.com
Website
http://www.harakaproject.org
Organisation Type
Other
Year of Establishment
2006
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Gender
  3. Heritage
  4. Human rights
  5. International/Cultural relations
  6. Media
  7. Research
  8. Youth and education
General Information
Established in 2006 in Cairo, HaRaKa is a project that aims at supporting, developing and researching dance and performance in Egypt and the Arabic Speaking Region. It is a non-governmental structure that works from Cairo on local, regional and international partnerships, and operates within research, production and dissemination. HaRaKa invests in an open understanding of contemporary dance and body-based artistic projects and processes, from pluri-focal and complex standpoints, informed by the history of art in the Arabic speaking region in relation to its neighbouring geo-realities
Mission and Objectives

HaRaKa operates on a democratic structure, that invites all its members to shape its artistic and research planning. It values the power of the voice of women in the Arab world, and the youth, and hence the majority of the members invited to steer it are women and are Arab.
The funding is based on project basis, and international partnerships and regional Arab partnerships, and is diverse.
The projects generate their own income as well, sometimes, in the case of workshops, and pedagogic partenrships with universities 
The modalities of action differ between workshops, screenings, exhibitions, research, public work, performances, installations, commissions of texts and translations
Main partners involve locally: CIC, Townhouse Gallery, Modern Dance School, American University in Cairo, Jesuites Theatre Alexandria, and others
Main partners internationally involved: Lincoln Centre (US), Friche Belle de Mai (France), Sarma (Belgium), TanzFabrik (Germany), Skoon (Lebanon), and others

Main Projects / Activities

TransDance International festival for performance and choreography
ARC.HIVE of Contemporary Arab Performing Arts
HADS: HaRaKa Advanced Dance Studies
Cairography: Arabic English publication on performance studies
Arab Dance Caravan: Arab performance and dance program for the Dusseldorf Tanzmesse
Arab Works: Performance, lectures, research and pedagogic project in partnership with New York Live Arts
Cairo Dance Community: Research and photographic investigation in partnership with Sarma (Belgium)

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

By providing acess to the artistic scene that is vibrant and energetic
By engaging in cross-institutional projects that operate on different levels and concerns: civic, artistic, pedagogic, and environmental
By actively using the arts as a tool for social understanding, development and change
By bringing the arts into the limelight of organizations working on development and education
 

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

To be able to collaborate with peers who are concerned with democracy, equality, and public work
To find partners with whom larger impact projects are possible to develop
To develop a larger dialogue within the civic work sector, between culture, education and human rights
To build projects that are multifaceted and hence bring different groups, audiences and demographics
 

Contact (1) Full Name
Seif Abdelsalam Shehata
Job Title
Productions Manager
Head of the organisation
Adham Hafez