J’aime bien les plis is the first stage creation of the young dancer and choreographer from Lausanne Alina Arshi.

Thought as a singing and dancing duo, Alina Arshi and Juliette Uzor study of double binds, metaphor, and contradiction. She uses the sex as a symbol and their bodies alternate between immobility and choreographic expressivity.

Their dialogue, somewhere between a hallucination and an interaction, opens an introspective space shared with the audience. Watching it from the stage, the audience is invited in an intimate space. They use soul music, jazz, and electronic distortions to underline the dramatic tensions of this sensitive study around conflict, delirium, and love.

This choreographic project goes from one opposite to the other, looking for a space “in-between”. Using the bodies of the two dancers as a medium.

Alina Arshi is a dancer and choreographer based in Lausanne. Having traversed ever-changing languages and cultural contexts, her questions today revolve around what emerges in common. She is inspired by the contradictory status of the body: at once concrete and abstract, this tool opens up other dimensions of communication and understanding.Entepfuhl, her Bachelor’s thesis at La Manufacture, has been presented in various venues in Switzerland, France, Italy and the UK. As a dancer, Alina has worked with Teresa Vittucci, Nicole Seiler, Marlène Saldana and Jonathan Drillet, Léa Katharina Meier, Juliette Uzor, Emma Bertuchoz, Mathilde Monnier, and Simon Van Schuylenbergh.
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