Saed Mansour

Saed is a Palestinian performance artist, dance teacher, and festival producer. At the moment, he nomads between Palestine and Europe. He aims to create spaces - be it as a performer, teacher, or festival producer - that focus on emotional, communal, and political processes.

Saed was born a Palestinian with an Israeli Citizenship (20 percent of the country's citizens are of such status), his life is political not by choice but is rooted deeply in his body and throughout the last generations. A big part of his journey of teaching and performing are about dealing and communicating with the wounds carried by this trauma for himself and others.

In 2020, he created a dance solo called "Ethneen Shtaieem" that explored the political and collective story of where he comes from. He did this while creating a ritual for himself and the audience. This solo eventually gave birth to the "Dancing the Political" workshop - a collaboration with choreographer Héloïse Dell'Ava in November 2022 in Geneva.

In 2024, he will be spending his time teaching in Palestine and Europe, choreographing a new performance piece: a duet about gender, and also producing two festivals.