Oüm

It was called "The Star of the East". Egyptian icon, Oum Kalthoum bewitched the crowds and his voice rocked the radio stations of the Maghreb and the Middle East. As for Omar Khayyam, Persian poet and scholar of the eleventh century, he wrote the intoxication of love and the taste to live in fiery verses that she loved to sing.

It was by Oum Kalthoum, a singer associated with her Moroccan childhood, that Fouad Boussouf discovered the poetry of Omar Khayyam. With Oüm, the choreographer pays tribute to both, and his hybrid dance, nourished by urban, traditional and contemporary inspirations, unfolds here in contact with live music in the bodies of six dancers with gestures as loose as seismic, all in fluidity and sensuality.