{"id":6839,"date":"2024-06-20T13:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montrealdanse.com\/?post_type=collaborateurs&#038;p=6839"},"modified":"2024-06-20T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:47:00","slug":"mona-el-husseini","status":"publish","type":"collaborateurs","link":"https:\/\/montrealdanse.com\/en\/people\/mona-el-husseini\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona El Husseini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mona El Husseini is a dancer and visual artist, based between Montreal and Cairo. She completed her dance education at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairocontemporarydancecenter.com\/Home\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(CCDC)<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Egypt and studied International Business and Contemporary Dance at Concordia University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mona choreographs and performs her own artistic projects, she collaborates with other artists as a choreographer and performer, and she also teaches contemporary dance, barre, and pilates. Her pieces have been performed in Egypt, Germany, Italy, and Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2023, Mona premiered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/event\/creatrix\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creatrix<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a dance duet with her mother, and published <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Family Portraits<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a visual art series and a graphic memoir at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/about\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MAI <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Montr\u00e9al, Arts Interculturels). She is currently developing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monday or Tuesday<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a dance solo performance, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbet Manzel \/\/ House Goddess<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a visual art series &#8211; both of which were presented at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uprisingup.com\/en\/homepage\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upRising Up <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">festival in Puglia, Italy, in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, Mona had a performing role in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7640230\/?ref_=vp_close\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Arabs Danced<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a TIFF- and FIFA-featured documentary film by Jawad Rhalib, and in 2022, she was the lead actress in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Gigi\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Mango\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, two short films by director <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randamali.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Randa Ali<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That same year she choreographed \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/duceppe.com\/mama\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mama<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u2019 a theatre piece by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/duceppe.com\/profils\/nathalie-doummar\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nathalie Doummar<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was presented at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/duceppe.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Duceppe<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hahaha.com\/fr\/a-propos\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Festival Juste Pour Rire<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Montreal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her artistic process, Mona goes beyond dance and traces the thread that connects the different art forms she practices including martial arts, visual arts, and writing. She is interested in how stories are transmitted, shared, and told through the body across generations. She finds the dance in the encounter between the intimate and the collective, the traditional and the contemporary, and in the space where the inner and outer meet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mona El Husseini is a dancer and visual artist, based between Montreal and Cairo. 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