Cutting Flat

Abou Lagraa constructs his dance with and for his 10 dancers. The scene he proposes is architecture, which Is as physical as it is mental. Marks on the ground, lines, partition walls and mirrors both mark boundaries and create a space for the 10 performers to cohabitate. The dance articulates the affirmation of each dancer’s identity, the meetings and the games of amorous seduction, the ever-present desire to be together, to belong to the group, but also the butting up against the differences of the other, of the others. It is a game of sharing, of communing as much as it is an affirmation of individualities. The only windows in this space are the images, which are projected or reflected by the mirrors. They duplicate the faces and the identities of the dancers. This piece, which began in Tunisia, then was re-worked in Annecy, is imbued with the marks of this voyage, Eastern accents rub up against the rigor of the choreographic construction. The energy developed in this dance is frictional, produced as much by that which unites as by that which divides the bodies and the groups.

Source : La Baraka

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