Amazigh

Trained from an early age in Maghreb dances and Arab-Andalusian music, Filipe Lourenço reactivates this heritage to bring it into dialogue with his seasoned practice of contemporary dance.

A traditional dance practiced by the Berbers of Morocco's Middle and High Atlas, ahidous is danced elbow-to-elbow in festive circles, accompanied by music and song.

Trained from an early age in Maghreb dances and Arab-Andalusian music, Filipe Lourenço reactivates this heritage to bring it into dialogue with his seasoned practice of contemporary dance. He extends a choreographic gesture that places musicality and the collective at the center of its concerns.

On stage, twelve tightly knit dancers honor as much as they reinvent this ancestral ritualized form where bodies serve as vectors of poetry and humanity. Ignited by the irresistible rhythms of live percussionist Amine Nouri, the repetitive movements harmonize, reaching a trance-like state, with the lively percussion.