Interdisciplinarity in Dance

Drawing from their extensive experiences in performance, artists Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King will explore the practices of interdisciplinarity in contemporary dance. The conversation will cover their past multi-modal collaborations and extend into a discussion of the future of their own practices and the field as a whole

About the Artists

Samaa Wakim graduated from the faculty of Theatre at the University of Haifa. She has performed in various international productions such as Badke by A.M Qattan foundation, KVS and Les Ballets C de la B in Belgium; 2012-2017, I’m Yusuf and This is My Brother co-produced by Shiber-Hur and Young Vic Theatre in London 2009-2012; Kabaret Khashabi theatre Haifa, Palestine 2016-2018 and as a member of Yaa Samar! Dance theatre since 2014. Losing It was developed as part of the Goethe Institute project “Un|Controlled Gestures?” (2019-2020).

Samar Haddad King, Artistic/Founding Director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, earned her BFA in choreography at Ailey/Fordham under the tutelage of KazukoHirabayashi. She was a 2018 Resident Artist at Chaillot - théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), a 2019/20 Resident Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts (CBA) at NYU, and is a 2021 Toulmin Creator (CBA/National Sawdust). King choreographed the 2019 musical We Live in Cairo, (American Repertory Theater, Boston), and co-authored a chapter on dance in the Arab World for the 2nd edition of Contemporary Choreography (Routledge, January 2018)