In the final dialogue session of the festival we take up a conversation on the embodied dimensions of virtuality across registers of experience, from the diasporic to displacement and dispossession. With contributions from emergency trauma dance and expression therapist Ahmed “Shark” Alghariz and artist and embodied social justice facilitator Camille Barton, the evening brings together two movement-based practices concentrated on somatics, memory, intergenerational trauma and healing. Ahmed and Camille will be joined in conversation by curator and researcher Dr. Emma-Lee Amponsah.
Following their conversation, Ahmed and Camille will both be giving Sunday workshops where festival audiences are invited to join them in the dance studio for a movement session.
Day:
Sat, 11 Oct
Time:
20:45–22:30
Venue:
Ventilator Cinema
Location:
Theatre
The Dialogue Sessions are a series of conversations taking place throughout the festival, which invite two cultural producers to share short presentations on their practices followed by an extended conversation between them.
Photo from a Campbreakerz performance
Camille Barton, Grief Portal (2020)
Biographies:
Ahmed "Shark" Alghariz is the co-founder of Campbreakerz, and he is an Emergency Trauma counselor and educator-Dance therapist. He offers dance methods and techniques to support stability and Body-Space-Rhythm Orientation, which relieve stress and help children and adults who are traumatised build social bonds, focus on their life goals and on community. Campbreakerz formed the community dance team to represent the Palestinian people and draw attention to their ongoing struggle. CB Crew shares the unique beauty of dance and art with the people of Gaza through teaching and performances, in addition to speaking around the world.
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, consultant, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille’s movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. Their work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens. Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024).
Emma-Lee Amponsah (she/her) is a cultural programmer, writer, and filmmaker with a background in media, gender, and religious studies. She curates interdisciplinary programs on abolition, memory, and community. As a founding member of Black Speaks Back, she engages critically with Blackness, belonging, and resistance across Europe. Her films and writing have featured at festivals, academic journals, and platforms worldwide.
