Khaddem Hazem

With “Khaddem Hazem” Aicha M’Barek and Hafiz Dhaou have created a piece rich in influences, which from the outset sets itself in a questioning relationship between contemporary and traditional dance.

With “Khaddem Hazem” Aicha M’Barek and Hafiz Dhaou have created a piece rich in influences, which from the outset sets itself in a questioning relationship between contemporary and traditional dance. Khaddem means a worker, an odd-job man and hazem, the pelvis, that part of the body which give rise to so many fantasies, symbol of fertility and creation. Supported by a very evocative soundtrack, the two artists draw on their body memories, where the stories – both great and small – that marked the daily life of their Tunisian childhood meet, between weightiness and grace. These body artists, these “openers of the pelvis”, draw figures in perpetual movement or barely sketched, carried where their destination-less wanderings take them. Embraces unwind into rolls or into lone falls. To and fro between intimacy and reserve, between sensuality and modesty, like some insolent game for this quartet of very different physiques.
Source : Maison de la Danse

Credits



Chorégraphie Aïcha M’Barek et Hafiz Dhaou interprètes Johanna Mandonnet, Aïcha M’Barek, Rolando Rocha, Hafiz Dhaou musique Eric Aldea, Ivan Chiossone lumières Nicolas Diaz

Production Cie Chatha coproduction Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, CCN de Caen, CCN de Créteil, Bonlieu – Scène nationale Annecy, Institut Français de Coopération (Tunis)

Réalisation vidéo Charles Picq date du document vidéo 2006 production Maison de la DanseDurée de l’œuvre1h