Gouâl - in situ [représentation de 16h]

Gouâl combines a traditional dance of the Maghreb, alaoui, to a more contemporary form of choreographic writing. Choreographer Filipe Lourenço wants to restore these dances’ original intensity, to go beyond some of the simplifications that have turned them into a generic commercial folklore. Alaoui was originally a war dance performed by men in the north of Morocco and in the western part of Algeria, but this performance will include female dancers to deconstruct the binary gender opposition – rather than to overturn it altogether, in order to subvert the many restrictions to the female gaze and their exclusion from the transmission process of these traditions. The choreographic writing of Filipe Lourenço has a strong political and critical component and relies on the full commitment of bodies and artists and a desire to modernize ancestral traditions.

Source: programme of the CND