photo by Guevara Namer, Lisbon, 2020bio
Sara Fakhry Ismail is a performance maker, visual artist, facilitator, and somatics practitioner. Their work is led by practice-based research. Their primary areas of research are the body, interiority and the body’s relationship to space . They view the body as a space of agency, connection and liberation. In Sara’s work, emotion and sensation unfold as spaces of collectivity, and a starting point to explore human and non-human agency.
Their practice moves accross text, image making, devising, scoring, performing and facilitating participatory live works. Their work will often combine more than one medium, taking root in either performance, or print / publication, if not both. Sara often works collaboratively with artists, writers and cultural practitioners, producing work through conversation and call-and-response.
Sara teaches and facilitates tools and methodologies from their somatics, urbanist and performance-making practice within various contexts, as well as collaborative devising and methods of artistic interventions.
Sara’s works were presented within many contexts and various locations, some of which are: Dance Research Studio and Camden People’s Theatre in London, Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo, B’sarya in Alexandria, Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, Citadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy, to name a few.
Sara holds a B.A in Theatre & Performance from the American University in Cairo and an M.A in Contemporary Performance Practice from Royal Holloway University of London. They are a licensed Somatic Education Practitioner.