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He often explores that through the interplay between language, voice, and the body, creating spaces for connection through humor, empathy, and reflection.
He has been supported by programs for emerging choreographers including Common Stories (2025) and ATLAS, ImPulsTanz (2026).
Eslam graduated from the Choreography and Performance Master's program (CUP) in Gießen, Germany, in 2024. He worked as a choreographer and dancer across Africa and Europe, after completing his studies at Maat|CCDC Dance School in Cairo 2019. He studied at Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS) in 2016.
Eslam created 7 different Choreographic works, which he presented in different places in Europe and Africa:
D-CAF Cairo, Tanzplattform Rhein Main, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Frankfurt LAB, Zukunft tanzt Festival, Sommerwerft, Frankfurt tanzt - Open air Festival, Tanzwerkstatt Europa - Openstage Munich, Landungsbrücken Frankfurt, Toplotsentrala Sofia, City of Culture - Tunisia, CCDC Maat Dance Platform - Cairo, Falaki Theater - Cairo.
As a dancer, he performed with choreographers like: Fabrice Mazliah, Marie-Lena Kaiser, Performing Group Company, Nazar Rakhmanov, Jorge Crecis, Olivier Dubois, Karima Mansour, Nicolas Cantillon, Michael Klien, Manuel Pelmus, and Mirette Mechail.
Residencies & Support
2026
ATLAS — IMPULSTANZ
Next Steps — Bureau Ritter & Crespo Foundation Performance
Kulturamt Frankfurt
2025
Common Lab Residency — Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, MC93
Tae'thir Project — Réseau Euromed France, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies & Instants vidéo numériques et poétiques
2023
Residenzen Einzelkünstler*innen: BiP - Fonds Darstellende Künste
Kulturamt Frankfurt
2022
ID_Tanzhaus Frankfurt Rhein-Main Residency Program
Zukunft tanzt Residency — Co-op Dance Company
Distance and Resistance Residency — Sofia Radar, Sofia
2021
Digital Residency — Goethe-Institut Cairo
The Sawiris Scholarship Program
2020
Self-organisation Grant — Mophradat
2019
Un/controlled Gestures Choreography Project — Goethe-Institut Cairo
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