Imane Touafek is an Algerian-American writer, composer, and performing artist living on Mohican-Lenape lands. Her works explores sensemaking through diasporic-hybridity, decolonizing gender, somatics, and imagining radical futures.

Her work has been presented at The Tank (NYC), Symphony Space (NYC), Providence Fringe Festival, The Wild Project (NYC), and the Manhattan School of Music.

Imane attended Stony Brook University (BA Music), NYU (MS Media), Brooklyn College (MFA Sonic Arts, candidate), and the California Institute of Integral Studies (MA East-West Psychology, candidate). She studied composition at the BMI Musical Theatre Project, New York Youth Symphony, and the European American Musical Alliance. She is a Deep Listening® certificate holder.

Her teachers include Andrea Goodman, Tom Bickley, Douglas Cohen, Amirtha Kidambi, Sheila Silver, and Philip Lasser.

Research interest

My work centers experimental music to locate my experience of hybrid identity within an intersectional dialogue of somatics, psychology, queerness, and diaspora. In our accelerated landscape of violence and global conflict, I propose an interdisciplinary approach to build on historical vocabularies of survival. How does intersubjective embodiment through creative improvisation invite personal and collective healing, facilitate active resistance, and imagine a future worth living?