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Halima Masoud Abdallah is a choreographer, dance artist and yoga instructor from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She was inspired by urban street dances from a young age, before training for three years at the Muda Africa Dance School, graduating with a Diploma in Contemporary Dance in 2019. As a dancer Halima has worked with several international dance companies and choreographers such as Can Creative (South Africa), Autin Dance Company (France), Vanessa Tamburi (Italy), Abdul Muyingo (Uganda) and Lindsay Renea (USA), amongst others.

In 2019, she was invited to Hamburg, Germany, to work on choreographer Yolanda Gutierrez’s Decolonisation project. She was also part of the “we are equal but different” dance exchange project between Tanzanian and German performing artists, supported by the German federal government. In 2021, she was invited back to Muda to teach the 1st year students and to take part in their online dance film platform Dansi Tena.

In 2018, Halima joined with other female dance artists to create Girls Power Dance Group, which aims to educate and empower women, providing a platform for their talents through performing arts and entrepreneurship. In 2021, she created her first solo choreography, Mazingira Yangu, which explores environmental issues in her local area and in September 2021 she was awarded the Prince Claus Seed Award to work on a new dance production addressing gender inequality in Tanzanian society. In 2022 she spent two months in Germany performing in the production Vinyago- Beyond Colonial biographies at the Humboldt forum in Berlin.