Set in Cairo, this experimental contemporary dance project brings together dancers, actors, musicians and cultural critics to explore themes of oppression and surrender, obedience and desire, using beasts of burden symbolically to poTraining and Regional Eventsay the body movements of the subjugated and the exploited. Participating performers are invited to express body-movements arising from their personal experiences of oppression in any form - educational systems, social taboos, censorships, diplomatic propriety, etc. The contemporary dance arising from this experimental workshop is then slotted to become a fixed performance.