Deep Encounter with Danya Hammoud I MARS 17-21, 2025 @ Studio ISAC

"Above all, what keeps me doing what I do is a constant need to explore how different forms of violence construct us, and a need to resist to the normalization of all kinds of violence; through observing and making visible minor details, through experimenting with different generations, and obviously through questioning political, economical and social contexts..."

Danya Hammoud shared with ISAC students some recurring themes to explore during the intensive week together...

The relationship to History, the relationship to the present.

Supports; Where are our supports?

The pelvis; initiation of all movement.

The intention of a gesture. The front.

Physical memory and visual memory.

Being a witness. Positioning.

Description: oral and written. Naming.

Composition. The Ensemble.

Danya Hammoud is a choreographer and dancer born in 1981 in Beirut, Lebanon. In parallel to her performances, she has been leading workshops and classes since 2007, mainly in Lebanon and France, where she develops an analytic approach of the movement through the practice of dance and the practice of writing. Between January 2019 and December 2022, she led regular workshops with the patients at the psychiatric hospital of Mas Careiron at Uzès. 

Currently she is co-programmer of the second edition of DÉRIVE CASABLANCAISE project along with choreographer Meryem Jazouli. D.C. is mainly an encounter between artists from the Mediterranean region, and more specifically from Lebanon, Palestine and Morocco.