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 an installation in which body, voice and gesture permeate each other. By means of screens, projections and translucent surfaces, images detach themselves from the body and become traces, lights, and glimmers. Within this passage from presence towards fragility, the work attaches itself to forms of survival.

In the tragedy of our lives, the end is something we know all to well. What we are not familiar with, however, is how it comes about. Sébastien Kheroufi will be presenting the epilogue of his forthcoming new work, La mort du Môme, three weeks prior to its premiere. This performance, Les enfants de la patrie, is a way of letting go of all suspense. What interests him is not that of staging the spectacle of a tragic life, but rather an investigation into the inner workings of misery.