A re-creation in four movements

Laaroussa Quartet took shape over time, through four sensitive phases guided by attention, memory, and listening.

Between January and March 2025, the original score — initially created for two bodies — is rewritten for four performers, in a fully reimagined choreographic, musical, and visual composition.

In February, the team returns to Sejnane, the birthplace of the gesture. This immersion — among the potters, their breath, their rhythm, their connection to the material — deeply nourishes the creation and leads to the making of the film Sejnane, Where the Gesture Is Born, directed by Selma and Sofiane Ouissi.

In April and May, in Brussels, within the studios of P.A.R.T.S., begins the transmission of the gesture — the reimagined one of the potters, now transformed into choreographic material. Body, music, and image intertwine in a living, evolving dialogue.

Finally, in June 2025, at the Théâtre National Tunisien, all dimensions of the project come together: sounds, gestures, visual scores.

A work is ready to be born.

A quartet of gestures and memories, carried by a polyphony of voices, bodies, and lands.

Premiere at Festival d’Avignon 2025

Laaroussa Quartet premiered from July 6 to 8, 2025, as part of the Festival d’Avignon. On July 11, a screening of Sejnane, Where the Gesture Is Born, the experimental documentary, was held and followed by a discussion.

The press and audience praised it as a powerful work, deeply rooted in reality and open to the universal.

Read the articles from Avignon:

→ Link to Libération, Le Monde, etc.

Next stop: Dream City 2025

Laaroussa Quartet will be presented at Dream City from October 16 to 19, 2025, in a non-theatrical venue — echoing its deep connection to territory and community.

An immersive exhibition around the Laaroussa project is also in the works, retracing over a decade of artistic, social, and political engagement with the women of Sejnane.