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Private event hosted by the National Theatre of Bucharest. The organiser is exclusively liable for the quality and content of this event!

Show presented in partnership with the French Institute of Bucharest & 4Culture, within eXplore Festival 2018, with the support of TEATROSKOP, a programme launched by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France.

In a white, blank space, an intensely lit human body.

Silhouette unprotected by any garment, without the possibility to escape the gaze.

Dancer. Woman. Of Arab origin. From France.

Inventing a character and an entire plethora of „others”, people different from us, Latifa Laâbissi exposes and recomposes the factory of politics – with its social, sexual and cultural boundaries.

Concept and “performance”: Latifa Laâbissi

Scenography: Nadia Lauro

Dramaturgy: Christophe Wavelet

Sound creation: Olivier Renouf

Light creation: Yannick Fouassier

Figures: Latifa Laâbissi& Nadia Lauro

Creation 2006

Production : 391 France

Coproduction: “Live shows” – Pompidou Centre, Paris

Creation residency: National Choreography Centre from Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon

Rehearsal residency: National Centre for Contemporary Dance of Angers

Details here  

Latifa Laabissi is a performer dancer and choreographer; she is an associate artist at CCN2 – The National Choreography Centre of Grenoble and Triangle – “Dancing City of Rennes”

Her creations include: “As Long as We Have Drunkenness”, 2016 / “Sleep Walking Screen”, 2012 / “The Side of Rite”, 2012 / “Loredreamsong”, 2010 / “Self Portrait Camouflage”, 2006.

Since 2011, she is an artistic director of the programme “Savage Extension”, artistic and pedagogic project in the rural area, Bretagne.

In 2016, she has been dedicated a monography published in co-edition at “Aubervilliers Laboratories” and“Les presses du reel” Publishing.

The show is scheduled for Monday, 8th October 2018, from 8.00 p.m. and lasts for 60 minutes.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu