Two pioneers of French hip hop dance reunite to create a new work for the freshest dancers of Casablanca’s vibrant scene.
Danser Casa
Choreography: Kader Attou and Mourad Merzouki
When / Monday, Apr 29 at 8pm
Where / The Red Theater
Presented in collaboration with the Institut francais in the UAE, cultural service of the French Embassy, as part of the Emirati-French Cultural Dialogue.
Mourad Merzouki (Compagnie Käfig, creator of Pixel) and Kader Attou (Compagnie Accrorap) go back to the roots of street dance as they bring together eight dancers – one woman and seven men from different backgrounds and cities. Danser Casa conveys the burning desire of Casablanca’s young dancers.
Captivating music and breathtaking choreography depicts the tension of Casablanca, wavering between latent violence always on the verge of exploding, and a fierce love that is never spoken. Sometimes the dancers size each other up, confronting one another in spirited duels, sometimes their intertwining bodies exude the energy of atomic fusion. The brute force that lifts them up, the sudden animality that invades them, the risks they take in their acrobatics – all create a tense climate of imminent danger from which suspended instants of pure beauty emerge at the very last moment.
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