Selma & Sofiane Ouissi
BIRD
septembersept 20 – 22
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.
See also
Carte Blanche Dream City
The Festival d'Automne gives Carte Blanche to the multidisciplinary Dream City festival in Tunis, which inaugurates the Commune's first Pavilion. Spanning the Medina of Tunis all the way to the town of Aubervilliers, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi and Jan Goossens will be making use of artistic creation in the form of a new urban space.
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Alsarah & The Nubatones
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Carte Blanche Dream City
The Festival d'Automne gives Carte Blanche to the multidisciplinary Dream City festival in Tunis, which inaugurates the Commune's first Pavilion. Spanning the Medina of Tunis all the way to the town of Aubervilliers, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi and Jan Goossens will be making use of artistic creation in the form of a new urban space.
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
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Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.