Spectacle : Décoloniser le dancefloor

At first glance, few things seem to bring the figures of the dancer and the speaker closer together. It is from this tension that the dancefloor is born, a conference-dance imagined by Habibitch from more than fifteen years of activism, dance practice, political reflection, clubbing, writing and personal experiences.

Through a hybrid form mixing speech, critical analysis and movement, Habibitch builds a thought based on his own journey: from Algeria to Paris, from militant squats to fashion shows, from Sciences Po to a world tour with Sam Smith as a dancer. By drawing on her lived experience, she produces an embodied socio-political knowledge, directly linked to the worlds she crosses and of which she speaks.

Part of an intersectional and decolonial feminist approach, Decolonizing Dancefloor questions the power relations, systems of domination and dominant narratives that structure our contemporary societies. Habibitch defends an accessible, funny, committed and deeply pedagogical word, refusing the forms of knowledge reserved for a few initiates.

By navigating between theoretical references, personal stories and ballroom culture, the performance proposes to reshuffle the maps of the usual discourses in order to make these issues accessible to as many people as possible. More than a conference or a show, decolonizing the dancefloor thus becomes a space for collective reflection and movement, inviting everyone to question their place in contemporary social structures.