Experimental dance theatre for wise women
Slowly, eyes open and arms extend outward. One after the other, they enter, silent, stretching time until it snaps. In search of light, five ants (‘ottof” in Berber) turn darkness into energy. Holding an audience in their spell is nothing new to these traditional dancers and singers from Morocco. No matter where they are called on to perform – cabarets, weddings, museums or contemporary theatre – the stage and everything that goes with it is an inextricable part of the lives of these indefatigable punk performers. With their unique idiom that seesaws between fantasy and realism, tragedy and burlesque, timelessness and prosaicness, calm and storminess, this is precisely what they demonstrate here. In four words: women who love life!
On 25 and 26.6 Bouchra Ouizguen will run a workshop for women and girls.
Artistic direction and choreography Bouchra Ouizguen Dance and singing Kabboura Aït Ben Hmad, Fatéma El Hanna, Halima Sahmoud, Fatna Ibn El Khatyb, Bouchra Ouizguen Lights Eric Wurtz Production Compagnie O Co-production Festival Montpellier Danse, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Les Spectacles Vivants-Centre Pompidou, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France au Maroc Support Institut Français de Marrakech, Arcadi
Presentation with the support of Fonds culturel Sud, Stiftung Corymbo