The One-Day Workshop: Finding The light within -A dance workshop by Shaymaa Shoukry
The light within. exploring the inner light. How can we shine on in dark times, how can we be in solidarity, in unity, in community?
The workshop will focus on playing with the idea of inner light and its outer manifestation, we will release the voice and the body to prepare for exploring using several light sources.
The workshop welcomes dancers, and people interested in experimenting and exploring dance and sound interactions. Open for only 10 participants.
Date: Friday 12th September 2025
Time: from 6 to 10 pm
Place: Studio Emad Eddin (18 Emad Eddin street, Downtown)
Deadline: 6th September 2025
Cost: free for the studio members; only selected participants will be contacted for the workshop.
About the trainer:
Shaymaa Shoukry is a Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Teacher, Experimental Musician, Martial Artist, healing practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a Mother. Shaymaa is interested in creating multilayered and multidisciplinary choreographic works, with an immersive research around the origin of movement, repetition, and transformation, tackling sociopolitical concerns, while exploring approaches to share her practices with publics from diverse backgrounds and various landscapes.
Shaymaa studied Visual Arts and Theatre at the American University in Cairo and Modern Dance at the Cairo Opera House School of 2006. She Followed the Contemporary Dance Workshops program at Studio Emad Eddin 2008-2011 and competed ‘Seeds’ Training for Dance Teaching in 2012- 2013. She obtained a diploma in Traditional Chinese Energetics from Meshkah Cairo and Collage S.F.E.R.E France 2020-2022. Co- founder and artistic director of Dayer for artistic productions company based in Cairo and functions internationally.
* Under the framework of Celebrating 20 years of Studio Emad Eddin