[ Marrocco | national premiere ]

Performed by the Moroccan choreographer Meryem Jazouli and written with complicity of Fatima Mazmouz, this solo makes us dive into the legends and traditions of Morocco through its main female figures. The choreographer chooses to embody and disembody simultaneously several characters, such as the witch and whore Aïcha Kandisha – a spirit who inhabits the body of some women and makes men mad – or Haja Hamdaouia – Moroccan singer who modernized the Aïta Marsawiya (tradicional morrocan music). Through movement and the work with breath and voice, Jazouli deconstructs, one by one, the mechanisms of these ghostly caricatures of male imagination, to reveal a multiplicity of more complex and ambiguous feminine identities. As if to tell us that she is a bit of all these figures but is also, and above all, a unique person.

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choreographed and performed by Meryem Jazouli
written by Fatima Mazmouz & Meryem Jazouli
light Damiano Foà
sound design Meryem Jazouli from work of Pascal Legal and Marc Ducret
ackowledgements Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi