LE TRAIT

Le Trait, as the line that joins the three works of the new creation of Nacera Belaza.
Two solos and a duo, like an echo to the path of the Franco-Algerian choreographer. After having danced for years alongside her sister Dalila, Nacera Belaza this time chose to work on a solo: a way to experience loneliness, feeling necessary to “remain permeable to the surrounding environment and to receive the world inside oneself”.

For Le Trait, Nacera and Dalila have created two different choreographies. Separate on stage, they are united by the relation that they both have with the body, the space and the emptiness.
This creation crosses another story: that of the choreographer and her country of origin, Algeria. Through Le Trait, together with two young dancers she met on the other side of the Mediterranean, Nacera Belaza explores the links between her “hypnotic” choreographic language and some Algerian traditional dances, some sacred rituals.

Even if minimal, Nacera Belaza’s dance is very generous, inviting the viewer to make a journey inside himself in order to better meet it. And all its force is in the intensity of a minimal gesture that reveals a poetry capable of giving rise to a myriad of images, never representing any.

Choreography : Nacera Belaza

Le Cœur et l’Oubli (solo)
Choreography : Dalila Belaza
Performance : Dalila Belaza
Sound and Light Conception: Dalila Belaza
Light : Éric Soyer
Sound Editing and Producing : Christophe Renaud, Frédéric Jouanlong

La Nuit (solo)
Choreography : Nacera Belaza
Performance : Nacera Belaza
Sound and Light Conception : Nacera Belaza
Light : Éric Soyer
Sound Editing and Producing : Christophe Renaud, Frédéric Jouanlong

Le Cercle (duo)
Choreography : Nacera Belaza
Performance : Mohamed Ali Djermane, Lotfi Mohand Arab
Sound and Light Conception : Nacera Belaza
Light : Éric Soyer
Sound Editing and Producing : Christophe Renaud, Frédéric Jouanlong

Partners
Coproduction : Festival d’Avignon, Le Parc de la Villette (Artist-in-Residence), Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy, Mécènes du Sud, Moussem (.eu), Fabbrica Europa (Firenze)
Residences : Le Prisme, Scène nationale de Cavaillon, La Faïencerie (Creil), Le Forum Scène conventionnée de Blanc-Mesnil, Teatro Era (Pontedera)
With the support of : DRAC Ile-de-France / Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Région Ile-de-France, Ambassade de France en Algérie, Union européenne, Institut français, Fondation Nuovi Mecenati, Institut français Deutschland-Bureau du Théâtre et de la Danse / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication/DGCA (support for coproduction)