About Us
HaRaKa Platform was established in 2006 by a group of artists, theorists, and specialists based in Cairo, Berlin and New York City
HaRaKa is the first platform dedicated to performance studies and movement research and practice in Egypt and the Arab region, and through local, regional, and international partnerships, it has curated, produced, published, researched, and set up pedagogic programs in the Arab world, Europe, and the US. Its latest projects were presented at La Mama Theatre (US), Sharjah Architecture Triennial (UAE), Shubbak Festival (UK), Cairo Opera House (Egypt), Hebbel Am Ufer (Germany), Impulstanz (Vienna), among others.
The platform focuses on colonial histories in relation to body-based practices, gender in performance, the Anthropocene and its cultural implications, and new planetary paradigms. It is steered by its core members, Mona Gamil, Lamia Gouda, Adam Kucharski, and Adham Hafez. Over the past fifteen years, HaRaKa Platform has created collaborations with renowned artists, including Cristina Caprioli (Stockholm), Constanza Macras (Berlin), Mey Seifan (Damascus/ Berlin), Yoshiko Chuma (New York), Myriam Van Imschoot (Brussels) among many others. HaRaKa Platform stages performances, publishes and translates texts on choreography and theatre, and has curated several international festivals and exchange platforms in Egypt, the US, and Germany, specializing in contemporary Arab performance practices and diaspora communities.
Meet the Team
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Lamia Gouda
لمياء جودة
Lamia is a performer, researcher, translator and activist. Her work as a researcher focuses on colonialism today, climate change and aesthetics, and feminism outside of western paradigms. Lamia has directed research projects for HaRaKa Platform since 2013, co-directed projects at Tanzmesse, Theater Der Welt, Townhouse Gallery among others. She steers the core research projects at HaRaKa, and contributes to its digital archive
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Adam Kucharski
آدم كحرسكي
Adam is an anthropologist turned urbanist turned economist. Working with performance to reveal hidden narratives of cities’ histories, Adam Kucharski’s contributions including mapping, writing, editing, researching and performing in HaRaKa’s creations. His practice looks at the future and past of cities, in relation to cultural policy and aesthetic histories
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Mona Gamil
منى جميل
Mona Gamil works with text, sound, visual and digital arts, to create interactive performances and installations. She earned her MA from the National College for Art and Design in Dublin, where she researched the applications of cyborg theory to augmented reality theatre and contemporary dance. Her work explores questions of identity, ambiguity, and power
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Adham Hafez
أدهم حافظ
Adham Hafez works with choreography, sound, text and images to create performances, installations and video work. He is the founder of HaRaKa Platform, developing its curatorial and pedagogic projects, and contributing as a writer to its publications. He has received multiple awards for his choreographic work, as well as for his academic research. He currently investigates the relations between political and aesthetic consensus