ASSWAT
Cyrinne Douss
Tunis
Multiple voices traverse Cyrinne Douss's body. Voices of ancestors, of women of yesterday and tomorrow. In Asswat — which connotes “voices”, in plural in Arabic — female identity unfolds in tensions, in rituals and in celebrations. Listening to the inside and the outside, the near and the far, the body becomes a territory of echoes, struggles, and memory. It welcomes, restores, transmits.
Alongside Cyrinne, artist and composer Benjemy weaves a sensitive score where music, breath, and movement intertwine. Together, they create a silent song, a rite of passage of a new kind.
This journey was built under the precise and benevolent gaze of the choreographer Robyn Orlin. Asswat is a work of transmission and repair, where the intimate becomes political, and fragility becomes strength. An embodied ritual, to make the buried voices heard—those that heal.
Radio Jeunes | كوريغراف ومبدعة في فن الرقص المعاصر. حديث عن التجارب الفنية، الكوريغرافيا، ودور الرقص في المشهد الثقافي التونسي. | Passage in arabic
africanews | Dream City biennale turns Tunis medina into living work of art | By Sasha Gankin | article in English.
9th, 10th, 11th and 12th October at 5:45pm
Madrasa El Mountaciriya (map)
9th, 10th, 11th and 12th October at 5:45pm
Duration: 40 min
Single ticket: 5 DT
Reduced rate: 3 DT for childrens and students on presentation of student card
Free: for residents of the medina on presentation of proof of residence
For online sales on Teskerti, a tax of 1,500 DT will be added to the price shown.
Concept, Choreography and Performance: Cyrinne Douss
Sound and Musical Creation: Benjemy
Dramaturgical Research: Sarah Di Bella
External perspective: Robyn Orlin
Vocal coaching: Alia Sellami
Costume design: Yosra Mzougui
Lighting design: Naou
Dream City Artist Manager: Clémence Hérault
Dream City Artist Assistant: Roua Guermazi
L'Art Rue – Ioul Musique
Co-production: The Lighthouse, National Choreographic Center of Le Havre Normandy/ direction Fouad Boussouf
With the support of the city of Pantin and the French Institute of Tunisia & the French Embassy
The project benefited from the provision of studio at the CND National Dance Center in Pantin
