Labes, de Selim Ben Safia
- Friday, december 4
- 7:00 PM-8:00 PM
- Institut du Monde Arabe 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France
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“All is well”: the title of Labes raises a question rather than settling it. Selim Ben Safia brings together four dancers and a musician to explore the interplay between refusal, vulnerability and the desire to carry on together.
Breakdance, contemporary dance, traditional movements and circus influences meet to the sound of Marie-Suzanne de Loye’s viola da gamba. The piece also draws on the energy of Palestinian dabkeh, Tunisian rhythms and funeral songs.
Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s stage design extends this tension between presence and disappearance. Drawing on her research into Jerusalem’s Maghrebi Quarter, destroyed in 1967, it conjures transparent walls through which bodies and music pass. The performance is presented as part of L’IMA fait son festival !
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- Museum rotunda, level 6; doors open at 18:30.
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Institut du Monde Arabe
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France