Bouchra Ouizguen

An ode to tenderness. In the company of the Dançando com a Diferença dancers, Bouchra Ouizguen pieces together dance underpinned by singularity. A world which is both joyous and simple—not naive, but necessary—that owes its existence to abandon and the attention we pay to ourselves, those around us and the world.

Bouchra Ouizguen operates at the threshold, at the point where the body opens itself up to what appears. Movement, permeated by traces and reminiscences, blends with bouts of song, music and silence. Alone onstage, the choreographer searches for a space of freedom, in which disappearance becomes a form of presence.

Sphere / Kurah is a spatial triptych in which bodies, voices and gestures permeate one another. Images detach themselves from the body to become traces, light, shimmering presences. In this passage from presence towards fragility, the work is concerned with the conditions of survival.

Marking the return of Festival d’Automne to the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Lubaina Himid, in collaboration with Magda Stawarska, presents a new site-specific installation. Combining paintings, textile, printmaking, and sound, their project connects grand history narratives with individual lives experiences around the universal theme of waiting.