nasa4nasa: Promises, Promises b2b and Sham3dan
Monday 26 Jan 2026 from 7pm to 8pm, from 8:30pm to 9:30pm
The programme is presented in two identical sessions at 7pm and 8:30pm, to discover the duo's universe in an intimate atmosphere.
For the first time in Paris, the Egyptian duo nasa4nasa presents an evening combining performance and cinema.
On the programme: the performance Promises, the screening of the video series Promises b2b, and a film adaptation of their new piece Sham3dan.
In Promises, the choreography expresses a promise that remains unfulfilled. Slow, intense movements depict a delicate search for harmony, tenderness, disappearance and renewal, where every attempt at synchronisation seems destined to fail before being reborn. A moving exploration of our relationship with time, between waiting, repetition and the longing for togetherness.
With Promises b2b, the duo deepens this exploration through a series of videos featuring duet dances. The space between the bodies becomes a playground and a source of tension - a symmetry in motion, between connection and dissonance.
Finally, Sham3dan takes us on a spellbinding choreographic journey inspired by Egyptian shamadan dance. Nine performers advance in balance, candlesticks on their heads, between popular traditions of the 1920s and contemporary gestures. Set to a soundtrack by Ismail Hosny, this piece depicts collective gravity, where shared movement becomes a form of silent resistance.
The programme is presented in two identical sessions at 7pm and 8:30pm, to discover the duo's universe in an intimate atmosphere.
Housed primarily on Instagram, the collective's work explores image-making and online presence as their ongoing dance practice. nasa4nasa's debut performance SUASH premiered in Next Festival and MDT (2018), later performed in Maadi Sporting Club (2019), Impulstanz [8:tension] Young Choreographer Series (2019), and Festival de Marseille (2021).
In February 2019, the duo performed their End of Times at Gypsum Gallery, later adapted for Judson (2022). In addition, they exhibited a series of images untitled as part of the group exhibition Codes of Coupling, curated by Mahmoud Khaled (2019) at Gypsum Gallery. nasa4nasa participated in Gwangju Biennale's Live Organs online commission with their work Promises b2b (2020). In 2021 they choreographed the playlist Jete out of the Window with the graduating students of the Place.
Finally, in June 2022, nasa4nasa debuted NO MERCY in Rawabet Cairo, later performed as part of the DCaf festival (2022), Zuricher Theater Spektakel (2023), Fondazione Fertinelli (2023), Dream City (2023), Danspace project (2024) Belluard Bollwork (2024). In 2024, their performance Promises was presented in Brief Histories, Art Explora, 99 Canal, BOFFO festival.
nasa4nasa is the recipient of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (2020), Mophradat's Consortium Fund (2018), and the GPS Global Practice Sharing | Movement Research Residency (2022). They were most recently awarded the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture for their latest work Sham3dan, which they premiered in September 2024 in Cairo, Egypt. In 2025 Sham3dan (Candelabra) internationally premiered at Art Basel (Unlimited) presented by Gypsum Gallery, Belluard Bollwerk and Festival de Marseille.