Salma Abdel Salam

Salma Abdel Salam is a dance artist and researcher based in Cairo. She holds a BA in Sociology from AUC in 2012, an MA in Performance Studies from NYUTish 2015, and is a graduate of the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center’s professional dance program 2015. From 2012-2014 she worked as a researcher assistant at AUC and Women Memory Forum. In 2016 she co-founded the dance collective nasa4nasa. Since its inception nasa4nasa has presented works in Next Festival, MDT, Gwangju Biennale, ImpulsTanz, Festival de Marseille, Gypsum Gallery, D-Caf, and Judson. Parallel to her choreographic practice, Salma teaches Performance Studies, Dance History, and movement-based workshops. She has taught at the American University in Cairo and the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center, ImpulsTanz, and independently through her teaching platform. Salma performed with Benoit LaChambre, Tino Sehgal, Yoshiko Chuma, Karima Mansour, and Mohamed Shafik among others. Her writing has been published by Ibraaz, ICI Paris, and Mada Masr, and she is currently working on a book project about Egyptian Dancer Farida Fahmy.