Magda Kachouche
Biography
I am a choreographer, visual artist and performer.
I created my company Langue Vivante in May 2022, which will host La Rose de Jericho, the next creation planned for June 2024. The company is supported by Danse Dense, and I will be a companion artist of the Beauvaisis national stage from 2023.
This season, I have been invited to create a project for ASSEMBLÉ with the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-St-Denis and the Centre National de la danse. I am also working on ALCAZARS, a pilot project designed for young people in the communes of Creil and Bailleul-sur-Thérain in the Oise region.
In 2021-22, Marion Carriau and I co-signed Chêne Centenaire, a nomadic and epiphytic piece presented in three versions: indoor, outdoor, and participatory. In January 2021, I created MACCHABÉE, a performance with and for Alice Martins. In December 2018, Mylène Benoit and I co-signed Diotime et les lions, and I worked as an artistic collaborator with Contour Progressif from 2013 to 2021. These plays are all currently on tour.
In 2018 I designed the set and lighting for Je Suis Tous Les Dieux by Marion Carriau. In 2015 I founded the plastic duo MKNM with Noémie Monier. I regularly work as an artistic collaborator and performer with different artists (Marion Carriau, Nina Santes and Eve Magot / La Fronde, Marion Blondeau, David Wampach...)
I created my company Langue Vivante in May 2022, which will host La Rose de Jericho, the next creation planned for June 2024. The company is supported by Danse Dense, and I will be a companion artist of the Beauvaisis national stage from 2023.
This season, I have been invited to create a project for ASSEMBLÉ with the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-St-Denis and the Centre National de la danse. I am also working on ALCAZARS, a pilot project designed for young people in the communes of Creil and Bailleul-sur-Thérain in the Oise region.
In 2021-22, Marion Carriau and I co-signed Chêne Centenaire, a nomadic and epiphytic piece presented in three versions: indoor, outdoor, and participatory. In January 2021, I created MACCHABÉE, a performance with and for Alice Martins. In December 2018, Mylène Benoit and I co-signed Diotime et les lions, and I worked as an artistic collaborator with Contour Progressif from 2013 to 2021. These plays are all currently on tour.
In 2018 I designed the set and lighting for Je Suis Tous Les Dieux by Marion Carriau. In 2015 I founded the plastic duo MKNM with Noémie Monier. I regularly work as an artistic collaborator and performer with different artists (Marion Carriau, Nina Santes and Eve Magot / La Fronde, Marion Blondeau, David Wampach...)
Project
La Rose de Jéricho
At the beginning, there is the loss of a loved one and the imperative need to stay in touch with him or her. There is the need to offer each other not only a space of reunion but also of reconciliation that allows for the goodbye: a space of rest for the deceased, the possibility of mourning for those who remain. As time passes, one of the spectacular lessons of mourning is that this journey is thunderously lively and full of surprises, even visits and encounters.
The Rose of Jericho is first of all the name of a desert plant, said to be immortal. It can survive for years half-dead, dried out, inert. As soon as the rain falls or it is watered, it comes back to life. The Rose of Jericho is a play in which one believes in ghosts and their mischievous visitations. We believe in the vibration of their presence in our bodies and our psyches, in their possible reanimations.
The Rose of Jericho is a family story: it addresses our ancestors and the beings to come. It is a story of sliding, of mutation, from one body to another, from the past to the future, from the future to the past, from you to me.
The Rose of Jericho is a choreographic duet with Alice Martins and Magda Kachouche during which we offer ourselves a colorful waltz of pranks and catches with our ghosts. Guided by the master of ceremonies Magda Kachouche, a sort of modern day pythia in direct contact with the afterlife, the dancer Alice Martins advances on the path of these infinite and saving metamorphoses. In connection with the spectators, the protagonists generate sung and danced rituals celebrating the pure, joyful and universal vitality that persists between the dead and the living of all species.
The Rose of Jericho is first of all the name of a desert plant, said to be immortal. It can survive for years half-dead, dried out, inert. As soon as the rain falls or it is watered, it comes back to life. The Rose of Jericho is a play in which one believes in ghosts and their mischievous visitations. We believe in the vibration of their presence in our bodies and our psyches, in their possible reanimations.
The Rose of Jericho is a family story: it addresses our ancestors and the beings to come. It is a story of sliding, of mutation, from one body to another, from the past to the future, from the future to the past, from you to me.
The Rose of Jericho is a choreographic duet with Alice Martins and Magda Kachouche during which we offer ourselves a colorful waltz of pranks and catches with our ghosts. Guided by the master of ceremonies Magda Kachouche, a sort of modern day pythia in direct contact with the afterlife, the dancer Alice Martins advances on the path of these infinite and saving metamorphoses. In connection with the spectators, the protagonists generate sung and danced rituals celebrating the pure, joyful and universal vitality that persists between the dead and the living of all species.
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