The Consortium Commissions
We are happy to announce that the premiere of Noha Ramadan’s performance, AfterMyth (and we shimmered as we crossed from one reality to another…), will be presented at Alkantara Festival (Lisbon) this month, as part of the third edition of Mophradat’s Consortium Commissions 2023/2025.
Noha Ramadan
AfterMyth (and we shimmered as we crossed from one reality to another…)
November 15 & 16, 2025 at 7pm
Alkantara Festival
Inspired by Rita Lucarelli’s notion of ‘doorscapes’—a term used to describe the numerous thresholds and their guardians depicted in Ancient Egyptian funerary texts— Noha’s AfterMyth offers a series of moving images and texts performed through the cinematic trope of a pop-horror dream sequence. It explores shared notions of loss and transformation, and searches for what comes to life in the gap between the frames. A previous iteration of this performance took place as a work in progress at Centrale Fies in Trento in July 2025. You can read more about Noha’s performance at Alkantara Festival here.
Noha Ramadan (b. 1979) is an Egyptian Australian artist and choreographer living in Amsterdam. Drawing from a long and continuing practice of improvisation, they create performances which attempt to articulate the body’s capacity for multiplicity and change. Through the use of a distinctly cinematic and poetic language, they are interested in opening a space for questioning the authority of the image, the self, and the premise of our shared reality. In 2017 they co-founded Jacuzzi, an artist-run studio in Amsterdam at the cross-roads of dance, visual arts and time-based media, where they organize and support various projects and collective events.
Art Time Residencies: Performance
We are happy to announce that Cis-tem Error, a performance by Lebanese choreographer and dancer Nadim Bahsoun, will be premiering at BUDA Kunstencentrum, as part of NEXT Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium. Nadim was invited to develop and present this project as part of Mophradat’s Art Time Residencies: Performance, following an open call launched in 2024.
Nadim Bahsoun
Cist-tem Error
November 9, 2025 at 5pm & 6:15pm
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November 10, 2025 at 7pm & 8pm
BUDA Kunstencentrum
In Cist-tem Error, Nadim invites the audience into an immersive experience, where safe spaces are questioned and the teachings of his grandmother, Ãmina, are shared. Unusually set in the theatre backstage, the performance takes the audience on a journey through the hidden corridors, stairs, and dimly lit spaces of the theatre building. There, Nadim shares an intimate ritual comprised of stories, aromas, tastes, songs, and dance, through which he explores his search for safety as well as wartime and colonial traumas. All throughout, Nadim celebrates the resilience of his grandmother, who rebuilt her house with her own hands after the French army had burnt it down.
Nadim Bahsoun (b. 1986) is a Lebanese artist based in Europe. He began his theatre and dance training in Lebanon and later studied economics and performing arts at the University of Nice and Paris VII. Nadim has toured internationally as a performer, creative collaborator, and choreographer for projects in theatre, dance, cinema, and video art. Besides touring, Nadim is currently collaborating on a hybrid contemporary opera with writer Eyad Houssami and is part of a queer film project by Egyptian artist Mohammad Shawky Hassan.