Tawreet Project

Tawreet (Entanglement) is an improvised live performance project by sound and visual artist Amro Zidan and dancer-performer Ziad Medhat. Merging sound, movement, and visual expression, Tawreet unfolds without scripts, choreography, or predefined structure. Each performance emerges spontaneously from the moment itself—fragile, volatile, and deeply present.

The project begins with an intimate conversation between the two artists—a space to share their current mental, emotional, and physical states. These dialogues are not mapped onto the performance but become a subconscious undercurrent that informs the live experience. Through this process, Tawreet becomes less about representation and more about embodiment—a live terrain where ideas and emotions are not explained, but encountered.

At its core, Tawreet is a practice of resistance. Not resistance as heroic act or grand statement, but as a subtle, continuous state of being—felt in the body, in silence, in repetition, in friction, in contradiction. Resistance here is the act of showing up, of moving despite weight, of remaining soft in the face of pressure, of speaking through dissonance or remaining quiet when noise is demanded.

The performance resists categorization. Movement collapses into stillness. Sound stutters, distorts, or disappears. The body trembles, stares, glitches, or walks. The voice may fragment, loop, or erupt unexpectedly. There is no message to be delivered—only the raw material of presence, and the risk of remaining open to discomfort, error, and the unknown.

Improvisation in Tawreet is not simply a technique—it is an emotional, and artistic stance. It allows vulnerability to surface, habits to be broken, and structures to be questioned. The work navigates questions around internal collapse, silence, artistic conformity, and the fragile act of staying alive and creating within overwhelming conditions.

In a time shaped by acceleration, control, and hypervisibility, Tawreet insists on slowness, unpredictability, and opacity. It invites the audience not as viewers, but as silent witnesses to a state of becoming—where the act of being present, with all its awkwardness and uncertainty, becomes a shared act of resistance and resilience.

Each performance is unique. What remains is not a narrative, but an imprint—traces of tension, release, and entanglement between two artists, their environment, and those who witness them. Through sound, body, and momentary image, Tawreet becomes a rehearsal for staying alive in a world constantly pulling us toward disappearance.

Amro Zidan is a multidisciplinary independent artist based in Alexandria, Egypt. His practice spans experimental electronic music, sound design, improvisation, live visuals, and vocal performance. Since beginning his career in 2006, Amro has released multiple solo and collaborative albums, contributed to Egypt’s independent music scene, and taken part in various residencies and experimental projects such as EIN L AQL, Between, and Beyond the Poles. He also works extensively as a sound designer and composer for independent films, always seeking to explore unconventional approaches to sound and storytelling.

Ziad Medhat is a dancer, actor, and choreographer whose work blends physical movement with performative dramaturgy. His artistic journey began in 2015, and since then, he has performed in national and international platforms, including Carthage Dance Days and artistic residencies in Berlin and Cairo. Ziad’s work focuses on the body as a site of meaning, tension, and possibility, often creating performances that blur the line between choreography and emotional expression.

Entanglement is a meeting point of their artistic worlds, a raw, unfolding dialogue between body and sound, between movement and visual expression. It is an invitation to both performers and audience to engage in a living, evolving moment of honest encounter.