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Mariana Machado
Mariana Machado
Mariana Machado

Bilal El Had

Ch'ttahh

danse

  • 45'
  • F Hearing-impaired spectators welcome
  • B Accessible to persons with reduced mobility








Concept, choreography, performance: Bilal El Had
Music producer: Cheb Runner
Dramaturg: Daniel Blanga Gubbay
Light design: Ivan Cascon
Sound design: Milan Van Doren
Costumes: Cyril Bourez
Scenography: Théo Demans
Producer: Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre & Les Halles de Schaerbeek


Coproduction: Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne ; Kaaitheater – Bruxelles ; Kunstenwerkplaats – Bruxelles ; Workspacebrussels – Bruxelles ; DE SINGEL – Centre d'art international, Anvers ; Les Brigittines – Bruxelles ; Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ; Ailleurs & Ici / Points Communs – Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d'Oise ; Fondation Royaumont – Centre international pour les artistes de la musique et de la danse (Asnières-sur-Oise) ; La Briqueterie – Centre de développement chorégraphique national du Val-de-Marne ; Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg, Scène européenne (Strasbourg)


Avec le soutien de: L’Autorité flamande ; la Commission communautaire flamande (VGC)












With Ch’ttahh (meaning “dancer”), Bilal El Had comes back with a new piece, both intimate and collective, inspired by the Moroccan chaabi, a popular dance and music from weddings, block parties and living rooms.

Starting from this living memory, he composes a piece where rhythm, songs, social gestures and embodied tales meet. From archives to contemporary presence, Ch’ttahh explores what the dance reveals, moves or breaks of gender norms and models of masculinity.

An homage and a reinvention. With humour and melancholy, this piece overflows with the powerful expressivity of the chaabi – a transformative a power, blurring lines and creating spaces for transformation. A lively moment where the collective past grows into new ways of thinking, of feeling and of imagining the future.

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