Born in Syria, Hoor is a choreographer and performer. Initially, Hoor only wanted to dance. She didn’t start choreographing her own pieces until 2014, when the war caused an exodus of the few choreographers working in the Syrian capital. With other artists, she created her own contemporary dance company, Sima Dance Company. In 2020, Hoor moved to Tiohtiá: ke/Montréal, to continue to develop as a choreographer and performer.
Drawing on physical theater that she interweaves with contemporary dance, Hoor unfolds a singular, often dreamlike choreographic universe that embodies her personal history and way of seeing the world. Auto-ethnographic in nature, her work always emerges from a reflection on the intimate, before exploring socio-political and cultural issues. It is rooted in the principles of groundedness, fluidity, intimacy, physicality and musicality. Her works include Regression (2016), Three Seconds (2018), Hanging (2019), Dust (2022) and If My body had a Name (2022).