Sacré Printemps!
Aicha M'Barek (France / Tunisia), Hafiz Dhaou (France / Tunisia) & Cie Chatha (France / Tunisia)
A hymn to Tunesia.
“The performance shows a lot of energy, with strong rhythm sections and an atmosphere of manifestations.” (Ubiquité culture)
Sacré Printemps! is an ode to freedom and a tribute to the Tunesian citizens who have fought for this freedom – often a life-and-death struggle.
Five dancers dance among cardboard figures of Zoo Project (alias of Bilal Berreni), who was killed at the age of 23 by a gang of raiders some time ago. Berreni was a promising artist, famous and praised for his committed drawings of Tunesian revolutionaries and later also Syrian refugees. Through his work in the aftermath of the Arab Spring the choreographers Aïcha M'Barek and Hafiz Dhaou said they were reminded that “art is in agreement with its time and context”.
Their choreography evokes the new hope but also the tensions that arise on the eve of a new order. The five dancers compete or merge with Berreni's figures driven by the up-tempo soundtrack of Ivan Chiossone and Eric Aldéa (together Zëro) Their body language – sometimes powerful, sometimes vulnerable – expresses a message of optimism.
M'Barek and Dhaou, both born in the Tunesian capital Tunis, have been dancing together since 1995 and founded their own company Chatha in 2005. They created Sacré Ptrintemps! during their residency at the Brussels Moussem.
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY Aïcha M’Barek & Hafiz Dhaou WITH Stéphanie Pignon, Aïcha M’Barek, Amala Dianor, Fabio Dolce, Rolando Rocha, Gregory Alliot, Hafiz Dhaou MUSIC CREATION Éric Aldéa & Ivan Chiossone with the participation of Sonia M’Barek DRAWING Dominique Simon LIGHTING DESIGN Xavier Lazarini LIGHT Sandrine Faure SOUND Christophe Zurfluh POEM Horrya - Liberté by Khaled Waghlani COMPOSITION, VOICE Sonia M’Barek BUILDER Bernard Ledey PRODUCTION AND TOURING MANAGER Aurélia Lefebvre PRODUCTION CHATHA COPRODUCTION Maison de la Danse, Lyon - Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy - Théâtre de Macon, Scène nationale - Centre de développement chorégraphique Les Hivernales, Avignon - Théâtre Louis Aragon-scène conventionnée danse, Tremblay-en-France - la Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris - Centre Dramatique National de Haute Normandie, Petit-Quevilly-Rouen-Mont- Saint-Aignan STUDIO RESIDENCY Centre chorégraphique national de Caen-Basse-Normandie - Moussem Nomadish KunstenCentrum, Anvers (Belgique) - Centre chorégraphique national
de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne - Cie Käfig - Conservatoire Riadh El Fehri Tunis (Tunisie) - Cie Propos SUPPORTS Institut Français Tunisie - Toboggan, Décines WITH THE SUPPORT OF Adami, société des artistes et interprètes / Aïcha M'Barek & Hafiz Dhaou are associate artists with the Maison de la Danse in Lyon in 2014. CHATHA is subsidized by the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and the Conseil Régional Auvergne Rhône-Alpes SUPPORTED BY the Institut Français and Ville de Lyon for its tours abroad. Aïcha M'Barek and Hafiz Dhaou are in residence of long creation in Bonlieu Scène nationale d'Annecy and associate artists with the CCN of Franche-Comté in Belfort VIADANSE 2016-2018.
