“I work across mediums combining and mixing them in accordance to the project at hand. My primary interests reflect on taboos surrounding the body, race and the forgery of history.”

About

Hend Elbalouty (EGY/DE) is a choreographer, performer, and writer whose work navigates the intersections of cultural practice, social class, and artistic expression. She holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and actively researches how social class is represented and negotiated within artistic communities.

Her practice explores the politics of movement, most notably in her award-winning performance How Did I End Up in This Place? بعيد عن العين، بعيد عن القلب, inspired by Egyptian street dance (Mahraganat). The piece earned her the Grand Art Prize of the Friends of the KHM in 2021. This work also laid the foundation for her first book, Mahraganat Dance: Between Acceptance and Rejection (2023), which she has presented at cultural institutions across Germany and Egypt.

Hend’s artistic approach merges dance and writing as tools for personal and collective transformation, centering embodied experience as a site of inquiry and resistance.