Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King
Losing it
septembersept 27 – 28
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© Christian Altorfer ©
Friday september 27
20h30
Saturday september 28
20h
Stage direction Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King. Choreography and performance Samaa Wakim. Musical interpretation Samar Haddad King. Lighting design Cord Haldun. Technical director Philippe Elstermann. Music Turathy - Autostrad.
Production Samaa Wakim
Coproduction Theaterformen Festival, Yaa Samar! Dance Theater & Khashabi Theater
"Losing It" was created as part of the Goethe Institute's "Un|Controlled Gestures" project (2019-2020).
Premiere 2021@Festival Theaterformen Hanover, Germany
Delegated Production Sens Interdits
With the support of ONDA - Office National de Diffusion Artistique, of Wevioo and of Focus
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and The Festival d’Automne à Paris present this Carte Blanche in co-production.
With the support of
"Can you still hear the bombs? Because I can." What happens when you grow up in a war zone? When you breathe in and physically feel the political conflict every day? How do you cope as a child in such an environment?
Choreographer and performer Samaa Wakim grew up in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Growing up in a war zone means being permanently inhabited by politics and violence. In Losing It, Samaa Wakim's solo dance piece questions how this experience has shaped her identity, exploring how the trauma of past generations manifests itself in her own body. Using movement and sound, she evokes memories of her childhood and the imaginary world she created to survive. Propelled by her own sounds and choreographer Samar Haddad King's live music, she floats between fear and hope, between the sounds that frightened her and those that comforted her.
See also
Carte Blanche Dream City
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Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
Starting with ordinary everyday gestures such as feeding, living together and getting around, Sofiane Ouissi explores our relationship with birds. Passionate about encounters and the journeys they generate, this time he delves into the relationship with another species.
Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Shonen company Sous Influence
First staged in Marseille on the roof terrace of La Friche Belle de mai, and then at Nuit Blanche 2018, Sous Influence is a techno party for all ages and all bodies in a dance epidemic. This party situation invites the audience to dance under the influence of a hundred or so amateur accomplices and professional dancers, bathed in the electronic music of Tunisian live-act composer Pan-J.
Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.
Radouan Mriziga Libya
Libya, the third piece by Moroccan choreographer Radouan Mriziga to be performed at this year's Festival d'Automne, explores the notion of 'knowing', in which eight dancers and a series of lines on the floor seem to trace the trajectories of a constellation of movements that we are about to observe.
Alsarah & The Nubatones
The Dream City Carte Blanche will be marked by a concert given by the group Alsarah & the Nubatones, born out of discussions between Alsarah and Rami El Aasser about Nubian songs, migration and cultural exchanges between Sudan and Egypt.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.
Winter Family H2-Hébron
Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.