Displacement

Mithkal Alzghair, Syria

contemporary dance

My research in this creation is centered on the patrimony of the Syrian culture traditions, physicalitys, transe, dynamic and repetitions. I try to understand the sources from which comes their traditional dances, the process of impregnation and contagion they are built, taking in consideration the social and political reality that has contributed on the creation of this heritage: the military heritage, the dictatur heritage, the heritage of authoritarian regimes, the revolution, the war and the displacement.

The necessity of this creation is related to that what I see today on the question of displacement and migration, violence, murders, massacres, conflicts and revolutions in Middle East. My objective is to define the identity of the Syrian body, the patrimony recognized, lived, built, and to understand how these events that shake our area, began writing a new heritage linked to the poltical, social and religious condition. I aim to identify the identity of the Syrian Body, of the acknowledged heritage and the lived and constructed one, in regard of the political, social and religious conditions that we are currently living. What is the identity of a society formed under domination and colonial dictatorship? Is the one of who lived the war and migration is different? Where is the space of freedom for these bodies? What are the constraints and the ideologies that are incorporated in us and how to face them?

So, Displacement is a research on what I inherited and also to participate in the reconstruction of a heritage that is currently in progress.

Mithkal Alzghair

Credits

coreografia: Mithkal Alzghair

interpretação: Rami Farah, Shamil Taskin, Mithkal Alzghair

apoio dramatúrgico: Thibaut Kaiser

desenho de luz: Séverine Rième

co-produção: Godsbanen Aarhus (Dinamarca), Musée de la Danse CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, The Foundation AFAC, Les Treize Arches Scène Conventionnée de Brive

com o apoio de Centre National de la Danse Pantin (França), Studio Le Regard du Cygne, Thêatre Louis Aragon, Scène Conventionnée Danse de Tremblay-en-France

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Bio Mithkal Alzghair

Mithkal Alzghair is choreographer, dancer, syrian, born in 1981. He studied between the East (Higher Institute of Dramatic Art in Damascus, Syria) and the West (master of choreographic studies “ex.e.r.ce” at the national choreographic center of Montpellier, France). He has performed for several choreographers and he has recently collaborated with the Italian company In-Occula, for the European project CRACK. He creates Displacement in march 2016, a solo and a trio in which he questions his legacy in a context of exile. The show won the 1st price of the international competition “Danse élargie“, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Museum of Dance / CCN Rennes et de Bretagne.

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