Selma & Sofiane Ouissi

BIRD

Carte Blanche Dream CityDance
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
septembersept 20 – 22
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50 minutes

Prices € 8 to € 15
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La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers

Friday september 20

19h00

Saturday september 21

18h00

Sunday september 22

15h00

Artistic direction Selma & Sofiane Ouissi. Performance Sofiane Ouissi, Jihed Khmiri, two pigeons. Music creation Jihed Khmiri. Technical support (animal) Mohammed Attia, Akhtar Ali Khan. Technical director Mohamed Belkhir.

Production L'Art Rue
Co-production Sharjah Arts Foundation
Acknowledgements Libr'Arts, Montpellier

La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and The Festival d’Automne à Paris present this Carte Blanche in co-production.

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.

Without trying to tame the pigeon, he allows himself to be guided by this encounter. How can we simply be present in the same space? What will this cohabitation provoke? What body and what states will emerge in this space in transformation, crossed by a dancer and a bird? Sofiane and Selma Ouissi favour the freedom of micro-gestures and subtle dialogues, while the increasing rhythms and music melt into the movements, transforming each breath into a narrative to be welcomed. BIRD is a multi-species space where the human is no longer central, opening up new relationships with animals that are contingent, fragile and uncertain.

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