Nora Amin is a choreographer, performer, author and scholar. She lives in Berlin since 2015 where she developed her own choreographic signature through community dance workshops, professional contemporary dance workshops, solo performances, academic lectures/seminars and authored books. She holds a PhD in cultural policy and the performing arts from the university of Hildesheim, and is author of “Migrating the Feminine” (on sexual violation as a political weapon) and “Dance of the Persecuted” (a feminist decolonial approach to the history of baladi dance), MSB Matthes & Seitz, 2018-2021. Her main focus is the decolonisation of dance knowledge, trauma healing, body as an archive of identity, performance as protest, and creating a feminist approach towards Baladi dance. She is a board member of the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute, and member of the scientific committee of the Barba Varley Foundation, as well as co-creator/curator of the MA Dance program: Community, participation & activism (London Contemporary Dance School, The Place, UK). Her recent dance creations include: Re-rooting and MY DANCE.