Algerian Dance Workshop led by Salima Aouissi

This workshop offers a free exploration of Algerian dances as a space for freedom, balance, and personal expression. Inspired by the idea that “the more space women have, the more balanced they are” (Assia Djebar). Participants are invited to let their body become a place of movement, breathing, and presence once again. In this workshop, it is not a question of imitating a form, but of allowing one’s own way of dancing to emerge, to the rhythm of the gellal and the derbouka.

Time: Thursday, March 26 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Group Exercise Room at the Glendon Athletic Club (Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview Ave. M4N 3M6)

The workship is led by doctoral student in Francophone Studies at Glendon. She is an artist and researcher interested in movement, rhythm, and bodily space as forms of memory, resistance, and creation. Her work explores dance as a sensitive language and as a gesture of reappropriation of the body in postcolonial contexts.

This workshop is open to all, with no level required. It will be held primarily in French.