Preceded by 'CHEB in Situ' by Filipe Lourenço
With an intermission. Total running time: 90 minutes
Inspired by the Ahidous traditions of the Amazigh tribes of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, AMAZIGH, is a dazzling performance for five artists. Here, music and dance emerge in their rawest, most irrepressible form: crackling percussion, a shared impulse, and unstoppable momentum.
Built around a metronomic loop reminiscent of a bolero, the performers dance and sing a geometric, exhilarating score whose hypnotic intensity rises steadily towards ecstasy. AMAZIGH is pure concentrated energy.
Choreography Filipe Lourenço
Assistant Deborah Lary
Performance Alice Lada, Ema Bertaud, Kerem Gelebek, Mithkal Alzghair, Youness Aboulakoul, Alice Lada, Ema Bertaud, Mithkal Alazghair, Jamil Attar, Ana Cristina Velasquez
Music Filipe Lourenço, Amine Nouri
Costumes Khalid Benghrib
Touring François Michaudel
Production Compagnie Filipe Lourenço / Plan-K
Co-production Maison de la culture de Bourges – Scène nationale, Théâtre de l’Agora-Desnos – Scène nationale de l’Essonne, Théâtre d’Orléans – Scène nationale, Théâtre de Corbeil-Essonnes, L’Arc – Scène nationale (Le Creusot), Espaces Pluriels – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national art et danse (Pau), Maison des arts et de la danse – Opéra de Limoges, Espace 1789 – Saint-Ouen, CCN de Nancy – Ballet du Rhin, CCN de Grenoble, CCN de Roubaix
With the support of CND – Centre National de la Danse, ADAMI, ONDA
Support and studio space provided by CNE – Centre National de la Danse, 104, Théâtre Louis Aragon
Filipe Lourenço Company / Plan-K is supported by le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DRAC Région Centre – Val de Loire dans le développement de ses projets.
The company has received support from Conseil Régional Centre – Val de Loire Compagnie Filipe Lourenço / Plan-K.