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Dance Performance / L'Onde
Austrian Premiere
12. + 13.03.22, 19.30 + 18.00
TQW Halle G
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
Franco-Algerian choreographer Nacera Belaza explores the ancient rituals that have always influenced her work. Being and infinity, the spinning of space and time, and the origin of self-transcendence come to haunt this unique dance that awakens the fundamental pulse and moving images from ancient times. Nacera Belaza’s dance is more of an inner journey than a pictorial illustration. Abstract and carnal, powerful and diaphanous, organic and open to the infinite, she starts from the void to project herself into the unknown, in search of a breath or a pulse that is as free as it is regenerative and revitalizing. Her choreographic work organises a lively dialogue between Algerian and European cultures, between spirituality and image, movement and imagination.
Besetzung: Nacera Belaza
was born in Algeria and has been living in France since the age of five. After studying literature in Reims, she founded her own company in 1989. She was honoured with a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2015. Belaza entered the world of dance as a self-taught artist, developing choreographies that are based on an inner journey, a sensitive listening to the body, to space and to the emptiness within. Repetition of gesture, infinite slowness, extension of time: All her pieces explore movement as one would explore a serene, deep breath that contrasts with the “deafening noise of our existences”. From master classes to site-specific performances, her desire to share and transmit has crystallized around her relationship with audiences and their territories. In a continual to-and-fro between two shores, Belaza develops her company work in France and has founded an artistic cooperative in Algeria. Her company presents its pieces internationally with a regular presence in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
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