Radouan Mriziga
AKAL (the earth)
Dates
fri 26 nov 2021 - 20:00
sat 27 nov 2021 - 20:00
location
Theaterstudio
price
€ 20 (standard) / € 18 (65+) / € 15 (-35) / € 10 (-19 years)
duration
1h 10' Mriziga creates an intimate choreographic space in which everything comes together
Can choreography close the gaps in our historical memory? In Akal, the third part of his trilogy, the Moroccan-Brussels choreographer Radouan Mriziga draws inspiration from the epistemologies of the Imazighen, the indigenous people of North Africa. Their oral culture was ignored for centuries, but for Mriziga it contains the seed of a new future. In each part, there is a central female figure who embodies and protects the Amazigh culture. In Akal (Tamazight for earth) this is the ancient Egyptian goddess Neith, the goddess of birth and death who guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Mriziga celebrates Neith’s strength in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza, who you may still remember from her appearance at Bouge B in 2015. Rituals, traditional dances, architecture, storytelling, song, poetry, rap: in Akal everything comes together in an intimate choreographic space in which a fresh look at a suppressed past makes us dream of a more inclusive future. From this season, Radouan Mriziga is one of our new in-house artists.
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