About Adham Hafez: Adham Hafez was born in Cairo, where he currently works as a choreographer,
dancer, music composer and singer. His studies began in Western classical music theory, as well as theatre; later he studied opera singing with Professor Neveen Allouba. A graduate of the Modern Dance School in Cairo, he has created dance performances, composed several original sound tracks for dance performances, concerts, sound installations and other musical events and performs in all of his dance creations. He is a grantee of the International Visitors Leadership Program in the United States and was warded First Prize as a young Egyptian Choreographer in the Contemporary Dance Festival Egypt/France 2004,
Themes such as rituals, gender and physical awareness are very prominent in his work. Recently, Hafez has been working on dance research and gender studies, conducting workshops, interviews and writing. Research also inspires his work, as in his piece Transformation created through workshops with the performers around the concept of transformation in performing arts, magical-religious practices and in psychosexual states. Previous works also include: translation and story telling, physical theatre performances, and singing in concerts from Gregorian chants and oratorios to contemporary music.
As a choreographer and a dance performer, Hafez works with the body as a whole, working with its history, identity, conflicts and body language reflected through the contemporary cultural context. As a music composer and a singer, he deals with sound and creation of new sounds, the voice as a means of expression, and abstract use of voice which is usually present in his dance performances. Hafez is currently working on a new sound installation, as well as on a project for contemporary dance documentation.
About Frankenstein: Moving between genres, genders, vocal performances and texts, Adham Hafez sings new songs and performs live electronic works based on original scores by musician Nader Hafez, from the transdisciplinary production “FRANKENSTEIN”. Pop, Opera, Electronic Music, Rap and more mix with the spoken and video-texts, creating a monstrous concert situation
Concept, Live Singing, Electronic Music, Lyrics: Adham Hafez
Original FRANKENSTEIN soundtrack excerpts: Nader Hafez
Recorded Singing: Katja Bosmann
Video: Roby
Photography: Ikon
Text-Video: Adham Hafez
“FRANKENSTEIN” is a transdisciplinary movement-based project exploring notions of monstrosity and body semiotics within contemporary contexts. Produced by Adham Hafez Co. 2009, Co-production: AFAC, Goethe Institut Egypt, Spanish Embassy Egypt. Supported by: Townhouse Gallery, SEE Foundation, TanzFabrik, Hammer Gallery, L’animal a l’esquena.
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