Farida Nabibaks is founder and artistic director of music and dance-theatre company  Reframing HERstory Art Foundation , based in Arnhem. Farida uses dance and embodied knowledge to address the collective trauma of the colonial and slavery past, with the ultimate goal of healing. She studied Philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen and holds a MA in Philosophy of Behavioural Sciences. She was also co-researcher in the Radboud Institute for the Culture and History (RICH) researchproject 'Feeling the traces of the colonial past', led by professor Liedeke Plate. This was built around her performance Radiant Shadow, part one, Margaretha.  

Farida is a researcher at KITLV doing a practice-based research on healing from the colonial and slavery past through art, dance/ dance-theatre and embodied knowledge from multiple ethnic perspectives. Read more on Farida on the website of  Reframing HERstory Art Foundation & Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor Kunsten. 

Publications

Nabibaks, Farida, Liedeke Plate, Vicky J. Fisher and Madelief Feenstra, 'Feeling the traces of the Dutch colonial past: Dance as an affective methodology in Farida Nabibaks’s Radiant Shadow', in: Emma Bijnen, Pepijn Brandon, Karwan Fatah-Black, Imara Limon, Wayne Modest and Margriet Schavemaker (eds.), The future of the Dutch colonial past: Curating heritage, art and activism. Amsterdam: AUP, 2024.