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World Stage Design Sharjah 2025 — Geometry of the Soul
Project type
Costume-Led Performance & Talk
Date
October 2025
Location
World Stage Design, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Collaborators
Performance Title: Contours of the Soul
Costume Designer & Director: Nouf Mallawi
Dancer & Choreographer: Noran Gebril
Lighting Designer: Abdulrahman Gamal Yakout
Lighting Supervisor: Bradley Trenaman
In collaboration with: Sharjah Performing Arts Academy
Geometry of the Soul is a costume-led performance exploring psychology, embodiment, and the geometry of inner experience.
Presented at World Stage Design Sharjah 2025, the project was realized through both live performance and public discourse, positioning costume as a primary narrative and research medium. The experimental contemporary dance performance, Contours of the Soul, was developed in collaboration with the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy and dancer–choreographer Noran Gebril, translating an inner psychological and spiritual journey into movement, form, and costume.
Costume functioned as both conceptual framework and performative architecture, shaping the body in motion while visualizing invisible inner processes.
In addition to the performance, Nouf Mallawi delivered a public talk on the project’s research, process, and cultural significance, framing Geometry of the Soul as a practice-led inquiry into costume, embodiment, and narrative construction.








