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.