Baladi (Raqs Sharqi) as language. Embodying a lineage of legendary dancers to interrogate the questions around femininity, desire, and power relations.
Trained with leading Lebanese and Egyptian dancers including Dina and Raqia Hassan, her process works through film archives and long-term embodied research.
The work moves between solo performance, live performance, lecture-performance, and workshop. Each piece is both an investigation and a reclamation.
Loulou inhabits the bodies and histories of legendary dancers. A cabaret reimagined as a site of resistance, experimentation, and freedom.
A lecture-performance tracing a century of Baladi (Raqs Sharqi) through its main figures and the socio-political contexts that shaped them. From the Ghawazi to contemporary solo Sharqi, with movement as the guide.
Teaching Raqs Sharqi in Lebanon and Barcelona, supporting women to reconnect with their bodies, expression, and agency. Classes that hold both the technical and the political.
Improvised and site-specific performances in Beirut and Barcelona. Recurring appearances at cultural events and solidarity gatherings.