Back/Bridge addresses the marks colonial histories left on bodies and tales from the postcolonial “margins” – especially those of the North African diaspora with a specific focus on Algeria.

This icono-choreo-graphic piece aims to map the continuity of systemic violences, from yesterday’s colonial exactions to contemporary discriminations. Using two types of language: movement and imagery.

The meeting of choreograpy and visual practices echos the multiplicity of trajectories, of legacies, journeys and ways of belonging, and explores how collective histories write themselves inside bodies.
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Biography

I love words, books, and sentences that take their time. That may come from my years in a literary preparatory program, my studies in history, Spanish, and later sociology, or perhaps from my migrant brain that knows how important it is to express oneself well when one comes from elsewhere. Dancer, choreographer, performer, writer, and teacher, I spend my time trying to bring the body and thought into dialogue. This is the heart of Décoloniser le dancefloor, a lecture-performance in which I use the history of the ballroom scene to talk about structural racism, colonial memory, and cultural appropriation. The rest fits into a suitcase of tours, workshops, and speaking engagements. The simplest way to understand it is still to come see me on stage.