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Madame Plaza
Excerpt from Bouchra Ouizguen’s performance, created at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2009.
Choreography : Bouchra Ouizguen
Premiered at the Festival Montpellier Danse 2009
Filmed by Valérie Urréa at the Studio Bagouet / Agora, international city of dance
“Madame Plaza” is Morrocan choreographer and dancer Bouchra Ouizguen’s new creation intended to pay tribute to and inspired from the music of the “Aïta”, those traditional morrocan singers whose performances rendering include songs, wailing and incantations. They are usually hide to provide entertainment at celebrations and special occasions (weddings, feasts, dances, etc…) and some night clubs.Prejudice against female artists has cast the figure of the “Aïta” in a paradoxical position, for they are at once the object of admiration, fantasizing and contemptuous rejection. Furthermore the “Aïta” artistry is too easily cast as folklore, in spite of its enchanting contemporaneity and powerful immediacy. Bouchra Ouizguen find deep kinship in these women’s quest for freedom.Madame Plaza is a fascinating encounter of bodies merging with songs. Agnès Izrine
Générique
Compagnie Anania
Choreography : Bouchra Ouizguen
With and music by : Fatima El Hanna, Fatima Aït Ben Hmad, Naïma Sahmoud, Bouchra Ouizguen
Musics : “Ahat ” chanté et composé par Youssef El Mejjad, « Akegarasu » de Shin-Nai
Lighting design : Yves Godin
Costumes design : Nouredine Amir
light control : Thalie Lurault
Production : Michel Laurent
Filmed by Valérie Urréa
Production : Compagnie Anania
Coproduction : Festival Montpellier Danse 2009, Fabbrica Europa (Firenze, Italie)
With the support of : Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France à Rabat, Département Afrique et Caraïbes de Culturesfrance – Ministère des affaires étrangères
Logistic support : Ecole Supérieur des Arts Visuels de Marrakech, Institut français de Marrakech
Duration : 40 minutes
