Libya
by Radouan Mriziga
30 Sept. at 6.30pm
1st oct. at 7pm
2 oct. at 7pm
5 oct. at 8pm
6 oct. at 6:30pm
7 oct. at 7pm
Centre Culturel Bir Lahjar
Choreographer : Radouan Mriziga
Artist assistant : Nada Khomsi (TBC)
Performers : Sondos Belhassen, Synda Jebali, Mehdi Chammam, Fatah Khiari Hichem Chebli, Maité Jennaôlin, Dorothé Munzenya, Younes Khoukhou
A7LA5 vzw and L'Art Rue/ Dream City
In collaboration with the Festival de Marseille, deSingel, C-Mine, Les Ballets C de la B, and with the support of the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation and The Flemish Government.
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Neither didactic nor documentary, neither pedagogical nor anthropological, Libya explores the notion of “knowledge” through the energy of its nine performers. Somewhere between performance, dance and rap, Libya uses family history and History with a capital H to talk about memory and legacy via the body and art.
In North Africa, crafts, inventions, science, cultures and philosophy of the Amazighs are passed down and perpetuated traditionally through stories, language, dance and song. Dancer and choreographer Radouan Mriziga wanted to celebrate this legacy, which also resonates with his family and with forms of Western knowledge through a human and artistic epic. It was a way for him to reappropriate History, to connect it to the present , and to share it, by opening it up to range of perspectives - Amazighs, all Mediterranean peoples, the world at large.