Hani Dance Movement Art Company is based in Luxembourg City and Trier (Germany). Our artistic approach goes beyond traditional boundaries and is rooted in the belief that movement art is a versatile medium that reaches into the depths of human history. We draw inspiration from a variety of sources including objects, painting, photography, environmental music, visual art and human stories to seamlessly integrate these elements into moving images that deeply touch the viewer. Each image we create is multi-layered and invites the viewer to engage with their own experience. Saeed Hani, Artistic Director of Hani Dance, is passionate about staging movement by placing dancers in specific environments and mindsets to observe how their bodies translate these elements into movement.

Hani Dance's work is intended to stimulate the audience's imagination and encourage them to explore and reflect on the complexity of the human condition in a visually stunning way. Themes such as ego, war, the Middle East conflict, LGBTQIA+, walls and human psychology, together with nudity, provide fertile ground for Saeed Hani's artistic exploration. In the vulnerability of nudity, Saeed Hani finds a deep connection to the essence of humanity - a timeless dance interwoven with our shared history.

Saeed Hani: “Coming from an Aramean family in Syria, our pre-Christian goddess was Ishtar, a naked woman on a lion with eagle wings - symbolising power, purity, beauty, fertility, sexuality and love. In our culture, the body was once revered as sacred and divine. With the arrival of Christianity, however, the naked body became veiled and associated with shame - a shift in human history that is worth exploring. For me, nude art is a means of challenging social norms and celebrating authenticity. As a queer Syrian artist, the inclusion of nudity is a powerful act of liberation and self-expression that revives our age-old reverence for the human form”.