Shireen Talhouni is a prominent Jordanian Circassian choreographer, performance artist, and architect whose practice-as-research interrogates the structural forces mapping the human body. Rooted in the intersections of spatial design and somatics, her work moves across performance making, pedagogical design, and critical theory to dissect how colonial and patriarchal systems dictate physical presence and memory.
By viewing architecture and choreography as deeply intertwined disciplines, Talhouni maps out how the body occupies, struggles against, and reclaims space. Her site-specific interventions, structural choreography, and movement research actively dismantle traditional boundaries between performance space and urban life.
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