Ella Poema Egipto

Ella Poema Egipto, an invocation of the sacred as a transformative force. Africa Moment presents a performance by Aïda Colmenero Dïaz.

"An invocation of the sacred.
Not as a distant mystery,
but as a living flame at our core.
May the sacred flow through us like a river,
transform us like fire, and reveal us, once again,
that the divine has always dwelt in us".

Ella Poema Egipto is part of the project Ella Poema, by the company Aïda Colmenero Dïaz.

Ella Poema is a project inspired by poems written by women, created and produced in Africa by its new generation of women creators in the performing arts. A revolutionary project due to its gender and post-colonial vision that, since 2013, is positioning women creators from more than a dozen African countries as artistic benchmarks on the international scene. So far, Ella Poema has produced 20 short dance films, 6 contemporary dance pieces and photographic series of great beauty and visual power. The creators of Ella Poema, daughters of the revolution and independence of a continent, are unique and pioneering artists who, from their particular geographical, cultural and personal context, confront individual and intimate creative processes to transform a literary score into corporal and audiovisual language. They use performative codes born from their immediate daily environment, from their heritage and from their own creative impulse, revealing universal messages. Ella Poema questions the stereotypes that the collective Western imaginary imposes on black-African female bodies, transgressing the hegemonic audiovisual and stage narratives, to offer a unique artistic manifestation.

Ella Poema Egipto is a play directed by Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, performed by Nermin Habib. With the support of the Government of Catalonia Ministry of Culture.

Activity curated by Asociación Africa Moment


Aïda Colmenero Dïaz

Creator, choreographer, actress, filmmaker, mentor and curator of performing arts, and Pina Bausch fellow. She has developed projects in more than 25 countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America, in venues such as El Mercat de les Flors, Teatros del Canal, Fabrik Potsdam, the Suzanne Dellal Centre, Théâtre Paris-Villette or Pina Bausch Zentrum, and in festivals such as El Grec, San Francisco Dance Film Festival or the Bienal Internacional de Danza de Cali. In 2024 she was appointed artistic director by the European Union for a choreographic project in Africa and was awarded at the Women in the Visual Arts Biennial.

www.aidacolmenerodiaz.com


Nermin Habib

Nermin Habib is an Egyptian choreographer and dancer, with a degree in Philosophy and trained in contemporary dance in Cairo. Her work deals with identity, belonging and female bodily expression. Certified by the International Dance Council CID, she received a scholarship from Mophradat in 2019 to train in Amsterdam. Co-founder of the company Echo, she works with marginalised communities and people with disabilities. She researches Egyptian cultural heritage, such as the baladi and tahtib, and develops workshops and educational projects.