Soraya Gomaa

Soraya Gomaa is one of the special guest selected with her piece "M/F" during CORA Dance Festival. Her choreographic writing constantly moves between opposing dynamic polarities, juxtaposing geometric, synchronized, and rigid structures—symbols of control and alienation—with elastic, fluid, and chaotic movements that celebrate fragility and human connection as a form of resistance.

BIO

Soraya Gomaa (Rome, 1997) is an Italian choreographer and dancer. She trained professionally at DAF – Dance Arts Faculty in Rome, developing a solid background as a performer for internationally acclaimed artists, alongside a strong interest in filmmaking. Alongside dance, she has cultivated a multidisciplinary sensibility rooted in the visual arts and cinema, directing and editing several short films, including Sogna Fiore Mio, selected for the CORA Dance Festival in 2025.

Her artistic research earned her the “Artist in Focus” award for the choreography M/F, for which she is also responsible for the dramaturgy and musical arrangement. The work premiered at the CORA Dance Festival in Taranto in 2026.

Artistic Research

Soraya Gomaa’s choreographic research focuses on the anthropological and dramaturgical investigation of the body, rejecting aesthetics for their own sake in favour of a profound narrative urgency. Influenced by a distinctly cinematic perspective and her scientific background, she conceives the stage as a pressure chamber or microcosm in which bodies respond to social constraints, isolation, and repressed tensions.

Movement is never decorative, but emerges organically and necessarily through guided improvisation processes, in which physical and sensory imagery encourages dancers to explore their emotional and introspective dimensions.

Her choreographic writing constantly moves between opposing dynamic polarities, juxtaposing geometric, synchronized, and rigid structures—symbols of control and alienation—with elastic, fluid, and chaotic movements that celebrate fragility and human connection as a form of resistance.

Within this meticulously composed spatial framework, each performer develops a distinct psychological trajectory, becoming part of a total synesthetic universe in which essential costumes, sharp lighting, and distorted sound architectures—often composed and arranged by the choreographer herself—amplify inner conflicts and the universal desire for escape.

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