D'Eux Sens

Piece dedicated to my father-in-law, Salim AiT Benalla (April 1949 – March 2008)

” While immersing myself in the poetry of Omar Khayyâm – a great Persian poet, philosopher and mathematician of the 11th century, I’ve been immediately seduced and inspired by the deepness and the humility of his discourse about the meaning of life and by his way of lauding the “joyousness of God”.

Khayyâm, with his Rubaiyat (quatrain in Persian), described himself as an infidel but a worshipper , and was critical towards the Muslim religious people. This is what interrogated me with questions, being myself a Muslim.

In this duo, I’m inspired by some of his quatrains, which raises questions on the passage of time, the fleeting pleasures of life and the immicence of death. Through spiral movements, between sky and earth, in a fluid dance thwarted by breathing, it seemed evident to me to talk about love in couple, burning desire, love of the one another another until self-loss and loss of the other. The dancers transcend this duo, exhilarated by the musical fusion of Sufi tradition and occidental electronic music. An original soundtrack by Eric Aldea and Ivan Chiossone mingles with iranian santûr and with the a cappella version of Omar Khayyâm’s quatrains by the Afghan singer Massoud Raonaq. Finally, the dan cer NawalAit Benalla Lagraa and myself are conversing and exploring “from the inside”, to let our own truth reverberate in each of us.”

Source : Abou Lagraa

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