Stop and Dance!
Spontaneous flash mob art amid social upheaval and political turmoil – Stop and Dance is an ambitions intercultural dance project, which aims to promote mobile street art in Egypt. Amira El Ahl reports from Cairo
Eight women stand on an escalator leading to the platform of the St. Theresia metro station in the district of Shubra. They stand one behind the other and don t seem to be paying much attention to anyone else. Then the first woman reaches the bottom of the escalator. Instead of walking further to the train platform like all of the other passengers, she presses her body against the wall and begins to writhe along it.