Ahlam El Dirani

An interdisciplinary performing artist, creative facilitator, and community arts practitioner. She employs movement-based research, deep listening, embodiment, documentation, collective care practices, and ecofeminist thinking to create artistic and collaborative processes in which stories and archives become shared sites of reflection and transformation.

She is a co-founder of Surra and staged the “Hayat” performance in Baalback and Beirut.

The Body as a Living Archive Text

A Three-Dimensional Letter

Did my body sense it? The way animals sense an earthquake, or a tsunami? Even if my body did sense it through the constant sound of drones and the accumulated memory of a body living within an ongoing war, perhaps somewhere in my unconscious I was preparing for it.