Yousef Aref Sbieh

Yousef Aref Sbieh (he/him) is a dancer and performer from Jerusalem, Palestine. He grew up in Silwan, a neighborhood near the Old City. Sbieh earned a BA in marketing and business from Birzeit University (2015) while training as a community dance trainer with the Austrian nonprofit Yantè. During this time, he collaborated with schools in the West Bank, integrating physical learning and nonviolent communication for young students and people with disabilities. Since 2016, Sbieh has worked as a freelance dancer, performing in projects with choreographers including Omar Rajeh, Samar Haddad King (YSDT), Hooman Sharifi, and Khaled Barghouthi. He also worked with Sareyyet Ramallah and the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. In 2017, he moved to Norway after receiving an apprenticeship with Carte Blanche, the Norwegian national contemporary dance company, with whom he performed in productions across Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany.