VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival

Les Sentinelles

Nacera Belaza

21/10/2011 , 23:00
22/10/2011 , 17:30

Choreography Nacera Belaza
Lights designer Eric Soyer
Lights technician Christophe Renaud
Sound and video project Nacera Belaza
Sound editing Christophe Renaud, Titou
Video editing Christophe Renaud
Peformers Dalila Belaza, Nacera Belaza

Co-production Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Centre National de la danse – Pantin (création en résidence), Centre de Développement Chorégraphique / Biennale du Val de Marne (accueil studio), Bonlieu – Scène Nationale d’Annecy, Centre Chorégraphique National de La
Rochelle / Poitou-Charentes, Kader Attou / Cie Accrorap (accueil studio), Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape / Compagnie Maguy Marin (accueil studio).
With the support of DRAC Ile-de-France Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Région Ile-de-France, du Conseil Général de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Département Afrique et Caraïbes en Création de CULTURESFRANCE – Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.
Residence Théâtre de l’Agora, Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne
The company is supported by CulturesFrance, d'Arcadi and de l'Onda for her diffusion

Running time 1h 30'

National Première

The Algerian dancer and choreographer Nacera Belaza is a radical artist, determined, not so willing to please the audience, who worked for over twenty years with her sister Dalila. For the creation of this show, a duet based on waiting, on guard. She takes her inspiration from Il deserto dei tartari by Dino Buzzati. In this job, dancing comes as a breaking point, takes you by surprise, and the audience becomes a “sentry” too.
She presented at Teatro delle Passioni the show Le Cri, which earned her the “Coreographic Revelation 2008” prize, given by the committee of theatrical, music and dance critics from transalpine countries. She is coming back this year at VIE Nacera Belaza.
How can we bring poetry to dance world? This is the question that the artist made herself to build this show. Her way to create a choreography is starting from anything. In Les Sentinelles, a pas de deux with Nacera and her sister Dalila, the protagonists body shapes are moving in the dark with undetectable steps. Even without any kind of narration or explicit reference to a text, the show is inspired to the novel “il deserto dei Tartari” by Dino Buzzati. It is a work based on waiting and watching.
The space of the desert is empty, un emptiness recovered by the rare movement, barely imperceptible.
Suspended between immobility and movement on the edge of what is undetectable, Les Sentinelles creates, with the help of Nina Simone’s musics, an atmosphere of great concentration, involving the audience in a moment of unforgettable intimacy.
Motion rarefaction creates a pièce full of substance and it gets wider towards the dance as a breaking point, in a motion that surprise and capture. The work is accompanied by Nina Simone’s music.
At the end of the show the audience will be able to witness a short excerpt from the new creation of Nacera Belaza, that is going to make her debut at the Festival d’Avignon, in July 2012.

http://cie-nacerabelaza.com/

Nacera Belaza

Born in Algeria and emigrated in France when she was only five years old, the choreograph and dancer Nacera Belaza decided to dedicate herself to dance as self-taught, after her studies in Classic Literature. She found her own company in 1989 together with her sister Dalila, who, since that moment, take part in every show of the company. Nacera Belaza practises teaching in France and throughout Europe.
Among her most recent productions, we mention: Paris-Alger (2003), Le Pur Hasard (2005), Un après, titre provisoire (2006), Le Cri (2008).
She organizes regularly workshop, in which she teaches, in Europe (France, Holland, Switzerland) and in some African States (Egypt, Palestine and Algeria).
The company resides since 2005 in the French Forum Blanc-Mesnil – scène conventionnée de Seine – Saint Denis.

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