Mohamed Toukabri
+ More info- Live performance
- maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- Pass Latitudes
- Avant-premiere
- 1h
Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday
With his most recent solo, Mohamed Toukabri explores territory where movement is at once an archaeological dig and an act of resistance. It is a deep dive into dance history which examines the transmission and the place of each body in our choreographic legacy.
Known for his ability to move between worlds – from the street to the stage, from hip hop to postmodernism, and from the personal to the political. Mohamed Toukabri explores the hierarchies inherent in the architecture of dance: who can move, how, and why? This is a piece which declares the urgency of decolonizing the imagination, of creating a space where different traditions dialogue with each other, where dances once considered “lesser” can find their place. “Everybody knows what tomorrow brings and we all know what happened yesterday.” The work’s title is both a provocation and a reminder: the weight of History is always with us and tomorrow’s dancing is shaped by our choices today. This is an invitation to a collective awareness of responsibility, going beyond that which is known, in a dance in which all bodies, all the stories – have their place.
Accessibility infos :
- Text spoken in French, English and Arabic, with French subtitles
- Rapid light variations
The show will be followed by a “coeurs critiques” debate led by Les Démêlées.
With the support of Lieux Culturels Pluridisciplinaires de la Ville de Lille
Within the framework of FIESTA – lille3000
Biography(s)
Mohamed Toukabri was born in Tunis and began dancing at the age of 12, starting with breakdance. He joined the Sybel Ballet Theatre (TN) led by Syheme Belkhodja (2002 – 2008). At the age of 16, Mohamed trained in Paris at the International Academy of Dance. In 2007 he returned to Tunis to study at the Mediterranean Centre for Contemporary Dance. He worked with the choreographer Imed Jemaa in 5 productions between 2006 and 2008.
In 2008, he started his studies at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, a dance school directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. During these studies he participated in Babel by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet from Eastman Company (BE) (2010). Mohamed was a member of Needcompany, the international performance company in Brussels founded by Jan Lauwers and Grace Ellen Barkey (2013-2018). He also performed in the remake of the repertory piece Zeitung by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (2012) and Sacré Printemps! by Aicha M’Barak and Hafiz Dhaou (Chatha Company (TN)) (2014).
Mohamed recently worked on the remake of the opera Shell Shock, A Requiem of War with the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, composer Nicholas Lens and writer Nick Cave for the 100th Anniversary of the World War I at the Philharmonie de Paris (2018.) He is also a part of Larbi’s newer creations; Nomad (2018) and the opera Alceste (choreographed for the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, 2019).
His first self-devised work The Upside Down Man (the son of the road) premiered at the Me, Myself & I Festival in Hellerau, Dresden in May 2018. The work is currently on tour in Belgium, UK, France, Lille, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Austria. It was selected for the Het Theater Festival as part of the #NewYoung category. His latest work is The Power (of) The Fragile, a duet with his mother, that is still touring internationally throughout Europe. Mohamed is currently working on a new production, which is called Every-body-knows-what-tomorrow-brings-and-we-all-know-what-happened-yesterday: it will be a solo exploring the ties between dance, memory, history, virtuosity, migration and politics.
Credits
Concept and choreography: Mohamed Toukabri
Dramaturgy: Eva Blaute
Costumes: Magali Grégoir
Text and voice: Essia Jaibi
Set and lighting design: Stef Stessel
Lighting technician: Matthieu Vergez
Sound design: Annalena Fröhlich
Graphic design and animation: Alyson Sillon
External eye: Radouan Mriziga
Coproduction: Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Needcompany, VIERNULVIER, Charleroi Danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, STUK, Concertgebouw Brugge, Beursschouwburg, Le Gymnase CDCN, Perpodium
Executive production: Caravan Production
Residency spaces: Théâtre Les Tanneurs, c o r s o, Le Gymnase CDCN, Les Bancs Publics – Festival Les Rencontres à l’échelle , Studio THOR with the support of Compagnie Thor / Thierry Smits, Needcompany
With the support of the Flemish authorities, commission of the Flemish authorities and taxshelter of Belgische Federale Overheid by Cronos Invest Acknowledgements Estelle Baldé, DEBO Collective, Gertjan Biasino
Mohamed Toukabri is an associate artist of Théâtre Les Tanneurs
