Feda Wardak, Saïdo Lehlouh, Deena Abdelwahed
Ce que le ciel ne sait pas
decemberdec 17 – 19
© Feda Wardak ©
© Feda Wardak ©
© Feda Wardak ©
BUS 75, 151 : Porte de Pantin
BUS 139, 150, 152 : Porte de la Villette
Metro 5 : Porte de Pantin
Metro 7 : Corentin Cariou or Porte de la Villette
Tramway 3B : Porte de Pantin or Porte de la Villette
Thursday december 17
20h
Friday december 18
20h
Saturday december 19
15h
Saturday december 19
20h
Artistic direction and dramaturgy Feda Wardak. Choreography and dramaturgical collaboration Saïdo Lehlouh. Music Deena Abdelwahed. With Mehdi Baki, Kaê Brown Carvalho, Marina De Remedios, Jerson Diasonama and Sonia Ichti. Lighting Tom Visser. Costumes Théo Ech-Cheikh. Veil design Ameline Baudoin. Stage management Pernette Bénard, Alexis Rostain and Pierre Staigre. Lighting operator Loïs Simac. Sound operator Chloé Baumeige. Staircase construction Les ateliers Sud Side. Staircase engineering Assemblage ingénierie. Platform construction La Fabrique à Projets. Platform engineering C3 Sud-Est. Production manager Antoine Blesson. Administration Jason Abajo. Production officer Sophie Roux-Mayoud.
Production Le Grand Gardon Blanc
Co-production Les Nuits de Fourvière—Lyon International Festival; Centre Pompidou—Department of Culture and Creation; Festival d’Automne à Paris; La Villette; Lieux Publics—CNAREP & Marseille International Production and Distribution Centre; Festival de Marseille; Le Palc—Pôle National Cirque Grand Est—City of Châlons-en-Champagne
With the support of the Caisse des Dépôts
With creative funding from the Île-de-France Region and SPEDIDAM
With residency support from the CND Centre national de la danse
La Villette, the Centre Pompidou and the Festival d’Automne in Paris are co-producers of this show and present it as a co-realisation.
As part of the Centre Pompidou’s Constellation programme.
With the support of
The architect and visual artist Feda Wardak plunges deep into the depths of Afghan struggles by means of an installation of a spectacular natures, inhabited by the dancers of choreographer Saïdo Lehlouh and Deena Abdelwahed’s sound design.
Ce que le ciel ne sait pas takes the form of a monumental and immersive work of visual art. It traces the imperialist dynamics at work in Afghanistan and the rural resistance movements that oppose them. Inside La Villette’s Grande Halle, a three-metre-high spiral staircase spanning three levels rotates around its vertical axis, evoking the drill bit used, unceasingly, for boring into and extracting natural resources from Afghan soil. Part of the long-term project Chercheurs d’eau, Feda Wardak makes visible counter-narratives from Afghanistan, meaning those that go against the dominant narratives that have been used to justify the various overseas interventions. The work spans three spaces: the sky, land and what lies beneath it. From afar, war is reduced to data flows and targeting information, completely detached from a ground-level reality which has been turned into an operational abstraction. Ce que le ciel ne sait pas explores these fragmentary narratives of a delocalised conflict, thereby shifting our gaze and restoring the voices of those that inhabit these lands.
In the same place
BUS 75, 151 : Porte de Pantin
BUS 139, 150, 152 : Porte de la Villette
Metro 5 : Porte de Pantin
Metro 7 : Corentin Cariou or Porte de la Villette
Tramway 3B : Porte de Pantin or Porte de la Villette