Latifa Laâbissi
Latifa Laâbissi is a French choreographer whose work presents a multiple off-screen field in which figures and voices emerge. In Self portrait camouflage (2006) and Loredreamsong (2010), the use of the voice and face as a vehicle for minority states becomes inseparable from the act of dancing. Continuing her exploration of the archive, she created Écran somnambule and La part du rite (2012) about German dance in the 1920s. Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse (2016), co-written with set designer Nadia Lauro, produces visions, landscapes and images in which the monstrous, the beautiful, the random, the comic and the frightening coexist. Her repertory pieces and her three latest creations, Witch Noises, on the figure of the witch, Consul and Meshie (2018) with Antonia Baehr and White Dog (2019), all tour in France and abroad. Since 2011, Latifa Laâbissi has been artistic director of Extension Sauvage, an artistic and educational programme in rural areas (Brittany). Until 2019, she is an associate artist at the CCN2 - Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble and the Triangle - Cité de la danse in Rennes.
Cet automne
Latifa Laâbissi, Manon de Boer Ghost Party (1)
Which voices nourish artistic practices? In parallel with the exhibition "Chantal Akerman. Travelling" presented at the Jeu de Paume art centre, the artist Manon de Boer and choreographer Latifa Laâbissi conjure up a space in which voice and gesture seek to understand the meaning of artistic genealogies.
Latifa Laâbissi, Antonia Baehr Cavaliers impurs In a visual installation by Nadia Lauro
Following on from Consul and Meshie, Latifa Laâbissi and Antonia Baehr bring us a duo in the form of a series of heterogeneous sequences, interlinked by a common thread of the impure, hybridization and collage. They combine their respective vocabularies, such as the relationship with the expressiveness of the face, and the crossing of genres, registers. Over the course of different numbers or acts, Laâbissi and Baehr interweave their respective universes, thereby overturning the various choreographic codes and blurring the frontiers.
Latifa Laâbissi au Festival d'Automne