Kawa, solo à deux

Recorded at the CND 8 December 2011

[Kawa, a solo for two people] 

A pile of white coffee cups clanging together and then a dancer – Hafiz Dhaou – slowly but surely struggles out. “Coffee in the morning silence, early and unhurried, the only silence in which you can be at peace with self and things, creative, standing alone with some water that you reach for in lazy solitude.”

Hafiz Dhaou and Aïcha M’Barek found a resonance in the verses of this Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwich (Memory for Forgetfulness, 1982) that they used to choreograph a solo in the shape of an awakening, that took them back to the source and to the pure essence of their work. After having created several group pieces, the two choreographers felt the need to move away from the constraints of producing a show and to resist all types of pressure. Kawa, solo à deux, is, therefore, “under pressure, first of all bitter, then its taste mellows and remains perfectly black, somewhat burning and mysterious”.

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Updating: January 2012