Marah haj

Marah Haj (b.1998) is a dancer, actress and maker from Kofor Yassif, Palestine. She has toured across Europe and the UK, winning the 2023 Roel Verniers Prize (Het Theaterfestival, Belgium) and the 2025 Flemish Actors' Guild Award for Best Acting Performance under 35. She is currently based in Antwerp, where she graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor of Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. In June 2023, she completed her master's degree in Drama at KASK in Ghent. 

By merging disciplines of dance and theater in her work, Marah Haj challenges the line that separates text from movement, while simultaneously searching for possible ways to allow both into the performative space.

In her work, Haj hones in on the concept and definition of mother tongue, exploring the power dynamics between languages. This focus resulted in the performances Kilma Hilwa & Zayt Zaitoun (2021), In Exile (2022) and Language: no broblem (2023). In addition to her own work, she is performing in Another Sacre, coached by Alain Platel & Bérengère Bodin, TH LNG GDBY by Tuur Marinus and Colors by Frank Dierens and Jitse Huysmans.