06/09/2025
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Introducing the artists and works presented in 'i've been looking for things that last' curated by Serafine1369.
19-22
Promises
(Improvisational Score)
Through slow and taut movements that negotiate distance, tenderness, appearing, and disappearing—this work is a constant attempt to exit the passage of time to move into being within time. A promise in its essential structure is always deemed to failure, yet predicated on hope, possibility, and potentiality. The absence and anticipation of a fulfilled promise is a testament to a lack, a desire projected onto the Other, never to be achieved, impossibly fulfilled.
You long for a body that you have grown attuned to and in the process project onto it bodies lost or grieved. In Promises, nasa4nasa’s motions and choreography embody the making of an awaited promise, a synchronicity that constantly breaks, a repeated insistence to capture time as it fleets.
nasa4nasa is a dance collective based in Cairo. It was co-founded by dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma Abdel Salam in October 2016. nasa4nasa uses static imagery to research notions of form, aesthetic and value. nasa4nasa uses chance, and repetition to examine failure, affect, vanity, boredom. nasa4nasa seeks to foreshadow alternative spaces as occupied stages. nasa4nasa is housed in social media, to actively interact with and sometimes interject with daily virtual mass consumption. nasa4nasa can be taken lightly or seriously, it is meant to do both. nasa4nasa does not seek to find meaning in everything it does. nasa4nasa f***s with dance.
