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Christophe Rollin - Radio Canut interviews Mia Habis

Paris

Romane Piffaut

Barcelona

Roger Bernat

Brussels

Elise Bruyère

Lyon

Mia Habis

Montpellier

Hamdi Dridi

Florence

Fabbrica Europa

Les SUBS

CND - Centre National de la Danse

Supported by 

Dance People Festival

Citerne.live is an online interdisciplinary digital space designed to propose a live streaming program of cultural events. It aims to provide a ‘cultural framework’ for creative thought online and to build a wider coalition of artists, cultural organizations, and festivals. ‘A voice for culture’, reflecting its innovative values as well as values of cooperation, commonality, equality, solidarity, and transnational approach.

#LocalCities, GlobalBodies

Co-creation and confusion of tongues. Chaos and creation. The difference between uncomfortableness and unsafety

Peggy Olislaegers

Tirana

THE BIG DANCE LAB

SHIFT

Can we hold the space together? 

Each space has its own history with former inhabitants. What could the aesthetics of action look like in non-conformative spaces? How is space defined, promised, taken, lost, and re-imagined?

Paraskevi Tektonidou

Give Me Some Space!

It is often a conversation stopper. This session will begin with an interview with Pascal Brunet, exploring the different qualities (plural) that artists and audiences seek.

Pascal Brunet

Can We Get Rid of The Word Quality?

A  solo creation choreographed and performed by Omar Rajeh, where he takes us into his dance and autobiographical universe, looking into the ‘performance’ as a gathering and a shared experience. The dancing body creates its own rules, its own structure, and its own inspirations, as an act of hope, in opposition to structures of power that diminish such dynamics towards normality and fear.

Omar Rajeh travels back into the past. Alone onstage, he dances and speaks of an intimate past that exists no more, of a fading image, and a deceiving one as well. A past that did not transfer into a future. The images, the meanings, the feelings, the people, the happy moments, everything froze. As if today he deals with a World with no past.

Omar Rajeh

Beirut

Dance is not for us - teaser

Dance Is not for Us

The digital era is shaking up our habits and our fields of perception. But the digital world is also an opportunity to rethink our artistic practices. It offers and puts forward new modes of representation but also of presence in the world. It represents a powerful tool which can, if it is mastered, encourage artistic proliferation, access to culture but also allow a greater richness and openness to the world and reach new audiences.

With guests Omar Rajeh et Mia Habis, founders of Citerne.live, Fu Le from Cie Tétrapode and Éloïse Lefévbre – visual and video artist and Olivier Chervin, responsible for pedagogy, conferences and training at la Maison de la Danse.

FU LE

Olivier Chervin

Elodie Lefebvre

Désoblique

Relationships and issues between dance and video

In a natural and oppressive environment that Man never seems to have altered, TEPHRA tells in images a contemporary mythology of the volcano: the one embodied by a collective female body, half-child, half-nymph. In contrast to the figure of the hero, her resilient behavior in the face of possible danger is personified by boredom, gentleness, mutual aid, ritual and acceptance of a future that is as peaceful as it is disturbing.

TEPHRA, vidéo 8’19’’, 2021, ©SUZANNE

SUZANNE

Julien Chaudet

Vulcano

JERK OFF Festival

TEPHRA

Jedeya. A bubble of memories of the ancestral gestures that shaped the life of a Tunisian grandmother and which have been passed down from one generation to the next.
Sofian Jouini explores the memory of bodies through the prism of his grandmother. He explores the gestures of everyday life and those of working the land up to the kneading of bread. In 2020, immersed in a nursing home, with the elderly, he collected their testimonies around the daily gestures that had filled their past lives. Between Tunisia and Brittany, these life stories have nourished the creation of Jedeya. Sofian invites us to sit around a bread oven to revisit the gestures that punctuate existence.

Sofian Jouini

Belfort

VIADANSE

Jedeya

A spontaneous journey where the traveler leaves their life behind for a time to let the spirit of the landscape and architecture attract and move them. Derive is an exploration through movement and visual-arts of how our breathing bodies can leave this weight and be entranced by the existence around us.
Photo Mauricio Yazbeck


Layal Berberi

Cameras of October

Maqamat

Dérive

Snakes and Ladders is an imaginary excursion, examining darkness, metaphorically, sensorially and symbolically. Hopelessly powerless bodies move, scan a dying city, try to read the future in the dark.
The film creates a duality between a human body and a concrete building - attempting to open pathways of perception by melting the fortifications of our constructed meanings – by observing matter and thought, in their raw form.
In darkness, we construct, in light we deconstruct. Photos © Nader Bahsoun


Yara Boustany

Snakes and Ladders

Turbulent flow is an expression of time and space. It was shot in the Lebanese mountains during a time of transition as well as economical and political instability in the country. There is a heaviness of some sort in the air, especially in the city. The mountains are high enough above it.
The rocks stand strong, seemingly eternally unhinged by the elements and variables, they are quite a nice refuge.
Photos © Taymour Boulos


Natasha Karam

George Nassar

Taymour Boulos

Turbulent Flow

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