A Writing Workshop with donia salem harhoor

Part of the Sustainability in Dance Series

One powerful way that  audiences, funders, potential collaborators, peers, and community at large can get to know about you and your creative work is through your bio and artist statement. Both invite us to communicate with clarity, precision, and eloquence what our journeys have been along with what we value, strive towards, and carry with us in our artistic lives. Both require brevity and distillation. 

In this generative workshop we will be discussing the elements of bios and artist statements, analyzing examples, engaging with writing prompts, and workshopping portions of our own.

About the Workshop Facilitator:

donia salem harhoor (they/she) is a disabled egyptian american anthophile. An Odissi student of Guru Durga Charan Ranbir for over twenty years, they are an interdisciplinary artist who works in dance, poetry, site-specific performance, herbalism, and film. Executive director of The Outlet Dance Project, founder of The Duniya Collective, member of Sakshi Productions, and inaugural Performing Artist in Residence at Grounds For Sculpture, donia’s written work has received support from Periplus, RAWI, Tin House, Lambda Literary, Roots.Wounds.Words, and others. Lover of foxes, tree lichen, and collective liberation, their MFA is from Goddard College.