Dance “Akzak, the impatience of a connected youth” by Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux

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Built on individual and collective energy, AKZAK explores notions of relationship and identity by appropriating the off-beat of Ottoman music to give rhythm to the dancing and singing bodies and the light.

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The choreographer duo takes a "block of humanities" with intertwined singularities to a choral choreographic piece (twelve dancers from Burkina Faso, Morocco, Tunisia and France) in dialogue with an original musical composition (percussionist Xavier Desandre Navarre live). What is their focus? The rhythm that binds them, welds them, diffracts them, pulses them through syncopation, tempo, unison, contrast effects; the individual energies that interact to create a collective body state in resonance with the state of the plural, fiery, speedy, hybrid world. AKZAK, the impatience of a linked youth is like its image: a piece with a sharp, lively writing, made of bounces and breaks, of combinations and fluidity. A feverish space, full of energy and hope, built around the notions of hospitality, fraternity, and solidarity, all of which are rooted in the heart of a youth impatient to live.