For Nacera Belaza, the stage is that empty and infinite space, that field open to every possibility, crossed by light and sound. She believes that the unalienable solitude – as a fundamental state of the human condition – is the most favourable state for perceiving the timeless gestures with which this void is peopled and letting them come to us. Whether in the form of the solo, in which she has chosen, like her sister Dalila, to include today her dance, or in that of the duet she has written for two Algerian dancers, each interpreter in this new creation is irreducibly alone in it and, likewise, infinitely linked to the space that welcomes him. The dancers do not enter it, they emerge from it and melt into it, to better incorporate this changing landscape and to embrace its slightest modulations. Their bodies above all become sound boxes, projection surfaces, literally activated by this paradoxical matter, as dense as it is intangible. Minute or impetuous, the movements that emerge from this encounter with space shape it, as much as they propagate it until it reaches us, like a host of waves that include us. Dance does not try to show, it comes between us. It makes us feel the enormous delicacy, the sovereign tranquility, but also the fleetingness of this line that crosses the bodies, animates them and reveals the multitude of intensities across which they have travelled. From the most tenuous to the most explosive, The Line is that interlacing of dynamics that inexorably clears a path, oscillating between light and shadow, murmurs and clamours, appearance and disappearance. It guides us towards an experience of the sensitive, an incarnated poetry that will make a thousand and one images spring up without ever representing any of them. SC
Distribution
conception Nacera Belaza
lighting Éric Soyer
sound Christophe Renaud, Benoît Rapidel
LE CERCLE
choreography Nacera Belaza
interpretation Lotfi Mohand Arab, Mohamed Ali Djermane
LE CŒUR ET L'OUBLI
choreography and interpretation Dalila Belaza
LA NUIT
choreography and interpretation Nacera Belaza
Production
production Cie Nacera Belaza
coproduction Festival d'Avignon, Le Parc de la Villette, Bonlieu National Stage in Annecy, Moussem (.eu), Fabbrica Europa (Florence)
with the support of: DRAC Île-de-France Ministry of Culture and Communication, Région Île-de-France, Institut français, European Union, Embassy of France in Algeria, Fondation Nuovi Mecenati, Institut français Deutschland-Bureau of the Theater of Dance/Ministry of Culture and Communication/DGCA
artist in residence: Prisme, in PACT Zollverein (Essen), at the Theater of Cavaillon National Stagee, in La Faïencerie (Creil), at the Forum Scène conventionnée de Blanc-Mesnil, at the Teatro Era (Pontedera)