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Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer
“Through this performance “Je danse et vous en donne à bouffer”, I’m immersed once more in the things I love: dancing and cooking. In handling vegetables, semolina, meat and spices; while giving free rein to my body to get back into dance.”
JE DANSE ET JE VOUS EN DONNE A BOUFFER / Creation 2008
Performed by Radhouane El Maddeb
“In my family I have always carefully observed my mother and my aunts preparing couscous. Our national dish, served at every occasion: marriages, circumcisions, mourning… One same dish for the different events which punctuate the same existence.
One constant: the love of preparation, and the sensuality of the produce in a form of sacredness, of solemnity in this moment of sharing; independent of the circumstances which have brought this meal together.
Through this performance “Je danse et vous en donne à bouffer”, I’m immersed once more in the things I love: dancing and cooking. In handling vegetables, semolina, meat and spices; while giving free rein to my body to get back into dance.
The evocative title lets you easily imagine what this performance might be. Seated before my couscous maker, I prepare a couscous and I dance with all the grandeur, generosity and poetry of these two arts. Between tomato concentrate, courgettes, carrots and cinnamon: a leap, a glance, a suspension or a rupture. Between the semolina and a chassé croisé, the dish simmers.
“It smells good, there’s singing, dancing… even eating!!!”
Close to the idea of synaesthesia, this choreographic offering evokes all the senses. Seated here and there across the performance area, spectators find themselves seized by the perfumes drifting through the air. The deployment of my body follows the slow diffusion of the food’s perfumes; the length of the performance determined by the cooking time. Odour – something rarely approached in live shows for the most part – makes for a delightful confusion of the senses for all guests.”
Radhouane El Meddeb
Source : www.lacompagniedesoi.com
Credits
Performance culinaire et dansée de Radhouane El Meddeb Réalisation et montage Stéphane Caroff
Updating : June 2012
