An Egyptian Male Contemporary Dancer Was Featured for the First Time and It’s Breaking All Barriers
By Nada Abdelkader
Over the past few years, a new movement launched in town by the name of Ballerinas of Cairo. One of this project’s hopes was to integrate ballet and Egypt and make a type of dance that’s usually associated with a certain degree of poshness that would appear completely normal.
But this project also gave way to something more special; it gave way to inspiring Egyptian women to own their streets, all dressed up and dancing.
Now the project has opened up a completely new door: integrating male dancers into pictures.
Fadi Sawires, the 25 year-old dancer in the photoshoot, collaborated with Ballerinas of Cairo and its founder and photographer Ahmed Fathi to unveil this mostly previously unheard of idea of male contemporary dancers going out into the open.
The photoshoot, like some of the other Ballerina photoshoots, takes place in the timeless streets of Downtown Cairo, in a simple, almost effortless way to integrate our past with our present.
According to Egypt Independent, Ahmed Fathi saw the reactions of the people who saw the shoot as very similar to the people’s reactions during the very first Ballerinas of Cairo photoshoot.
For Fathi, this photoshoot was another step in breaking the taboo around dance and it certainly won’t be the last.
