Cloud Study dancer Salma Ataya teaches a professional class
This class explores improvisation and floor work with a focus on softness and moving with less effort. We will use imagination to influence our movement and flow, allowing ideas to shape the body. Through both improvisation and set movement phrases, we will investigate a sense of light alertness—staying present, ready, and responsive. Together, we will practice continuous motion, responding softly to change, and finding ease, fluidity, and flow in movement.
Salma Ataya is a dancer, performer, and choreographer. Raised in Ramallah, she began dancing through Dabkeh before discovering contemporary dance through workshops with international guest artists at Saryyet Ramallah and the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. Between 2012 and 2016 she performed locally and internationally, with Les Ballets C de la B and KVS before moving to Ireland, where she graduated with an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of Limerick in 2017. Since then, she has lead various dance workshops and classes and worked with a number of companies including John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Catherine Young Dance, Séverine Chavrier, Théâtre d'Orléans Paris, Justine Doswell, Mary Nunan, CoisCeim dance theatre, Rob Heaslip, Laura Murphy, Junk Ensemble and Pan Pan Theatre.
